Manufacturing and Automation - Integration of Supply Chain Simulations: Enhancement of Interface Specification and Development of a Retailer Model - Employee Training and Assignment for Team-based Manufacturing Systems - Forming Manufacturing Cells - Perform Modeling, Control Analysis, Simulation Testing and Evaluation of IBM Tape Track Following Servo System - Research on Vehicles/Intelligent Systems - VISTA - Vehicles with Intelligent Systems for Transport Automation - Establishment of the Sino-US Kelon Joint R&D Center for Intelligent Control Systems - Variation Propogation Modeling and Analysis for Multi-Stage Manufacturing Processes - CAREER: A Unified Methodology for Variation Management and Reduction in Multistage Manufacturing Processes