INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR MANUFACTURING SCIENCE & PRODUCTION

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Moshe Shpitalni

TECHNION-Israel Institute of Technology

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Haifa, Israel 32000

Tel: +972-4-8293155, +Fax: 972-4-8295711 Email: ijmsp@tx.technion.ac.il

Editor for Europe:

Prof. Kai Cheng

Leeds Metropolitan University, U.K.

Editor for North America:

Prof. Stephen Malkin

University of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S.A

Editor for Asia:

Prof. Fumihiko Kimura

University of Tokyo, Japan

Assistant Editor:

Donna Bossin,

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

International Editorial Board

L. Alting, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark E. Ares, University of Vigo, Spain A. Ber, Technion-IIT, Israel C.D. Bouzakis, Aristoteles University Thessaloniki, Greece R. Bueno, Fundacion Tekniker, Spain G. Cai, Northeastern University Shenyang, China G. Chryssolouris, University of Patras, Greece U. Cugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy M. Geiger, University of Erlangen, Germany P. Gu, The University of Calgary, Canada I. Inasaki, Keio University, Japan J. Jedrzejewski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland F. Jovane, University of Milan, Italy F. Klocke, RWTH Aachen, Germany Y. Koren, University of Michigan, USA J.P. Kruth, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium J. Lee, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA

J.M. Lee, Seoul National University, Korea E. Lenz, Technion, Israel S.C-Y. Lu, University of Southern California, USA D. Lucca, Oklahoma State University, USA A. Mamalis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece M. Marcos, University of Cadiz, Spain M. Miller, Michigan Technological University, USA L. Monostori, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary A.Y.C. Nee, National University of Singapore, Singapore J.F.G. Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil K.P. Rajurkar, University of Nebraska, USA M. Santochi, University of Pisa, Italy A.J. Shih, University of Michigan, USA G. Stachowiak, The University of Western Australia, Australia Y. Takeuchi, Osaka University, Japan S. Tichkiewitch, Domaine University, France G. Zhang, Tianjin University, China

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