日本工业和国际贸易部(MITI)发起组织了一个新的国际合作研究计划——智能制造系统(IMS)的研究,计划的倡导者是东京大学工程学院院长,他是一个1990年才成立的、由国际学术界、工业界和政府所组成的委员会的主席。而这个委员会的宗旨,就是要建立一个由日本、美国和西欧共同参加的IMS国际研究中心,执行IMS研究计划。为此,几国共投资10亿美元,其中日本占60％。该计划已于1990年开始执行。 什么是IMS呢?MITI的解释是“IMS在整个制造过程中贯穿智能活动,并将这种知识活动 Japan's Ministry of Industry and International Trade (MITI) initiated the study of a new international collaborative research project, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS), sponsored by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, which was founded in 1990 , Chairman of the committee composed of international academia, industry and government. The purpose of this committee is to establish an IMS International Research Center with Japan, the United States and Western Europe to participate in the implementation of IMS research programs. To this end, several countries invested a total of one billion US dollars, of which Japan accounted for 60%. The plan was implemented in 1990. What is IMS? MITI explained that "IMS throughout the manufacturing process throughout the intelligent activities, and this knowledge activity