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Proceedings of 12 symposia at the November 1998 ASME meeting. One hundred and three papers discuss reconfigurable products, services, and manufacturing; recent advances in microchip packaging; environmentally conscious design and manufacturing; advanced maintenance methodologies and technologies; mechatronics; sensor-based control; assembly modeling and systems; recent advances in machine tools and metrology; concurrent design of product and manufacturing processes; advanced materials processing; advanced tooling and fixturing; and technological advances in critical areas of wafer and electronics manufacturing. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR