Part 1 Information and organization - resources for advanced manufacturing: strategies for the factory of the future; product design between market and manufacturing requirements; production management - the key to successful manufacturing; economic and human-oriented operation of production systems. Part 2 Toward a more sophisticated use of manufacturing technologies; production reliability and quality by "Intelligent" technologies; increased efficiency of machining tools; material-adapted machining tools; material-adapted machining opens up new productity potential; manufacturing technologies and environmental responsibility. Part 3 Efficient manufacturing equipment - from single machines to integrated systems: design and realization of manufacturing equipment; material flow in integrated systems - the problem of interfacing; shopfloor control techniques for flexible manufacturing systems; ways to reduce the initial operation and stand-still times of complex manufacturing machines. Part 4 Quality assurance - a key function in all fields of manufacturing: quality control loops - the core of integrated quality assurance; networks as a basic requirement for quality management; optoelectric measurements for on-line quality assurance.