Casting design with help of Information Fusion

The computer-aided support of several tasks is the main focus in a lot of companies. In particular, work scheduling and casting design in foundries is an important area which is responsible for that industry's economic survival in the world market. This paper contains proposals for a better support of the work scheduling and casting design phases with the help of modern computer techniques. First, a review of the research group "Information Fusion" is given. Then, several aspects of work scheduling are explained, like the integrated process of working out offers and scheduling the manufacturing, the incoming and outgoing conditions in the working out of offers, check-lists and databases for technical checks, etc. In order to manage these main points of the work scheduling, a control system , such as a workflow management system, is introduced. This paper presents various solutions in order to support the working out of offers.