IPROMS 2007 is the third online, web-based conference on Innovative Production Machines and Systems organized by the EU-funded I*PROMS Network of Excellence. It continues to build on the two previous outstandingly successful conferences and attracted authors from 30 countries across 5 continents. Containing more than 100 papers presented at the conference, this book provides an invaluable state of the technology review and assessment and is a focal point for access to information from researchers and industrial practitioners in the field of intelligent systems and soft computing techniques and their application in diverse areas within manufacturing.