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ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE CONFERENCE "Design and Analysis of Integrated Manufacturing Systems: Status, Issues, and Opportunities" JA~S I. So~sERG (Chairman), Director, Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Purdue University W. DALE CoMProN, Senior Fellow, National Academy of Engineering GEORGE H. KUPER, Executive Director, Manufacturing Studies Board, National Research Council RICHARD C. MESSINGER, Vice President, Research and Development, Cincinnati Milacron, Inc. A. ALAN B. PRIMS, President, Pritsker and Associates, Inc. WILLIAM P. SLICHI~;K, Executive Director, Research, Materials Science and Engineering Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories (Retired) JOHN A. WHITE, Regents' Professor and Director, Material Handling Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology RICHARD C. WILSON, Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Operations Engineering Department, University of Michigan 225