Design operations need to be standardized. Production engineer know-how to be transformed into databases. Widespread use by 2000. Production management systems developed early but will be affected by development of databases and expert systems. Automated assembly system to copy an engine by 1995-98.
Intelligent robots face problems in building robots and interfacing with peripherals.
Important task is development of natural man- machine interface. Business use of distributed databases is most important topic. Widespread use by 2000. Many comments emphasizing importance of standardized database format and protection problems. Widespread use of multimedia databases by 2001.