Part 1. The cybernetics. 1. Microprocessors and microcontrollers : past, present, and future. 2. Selection of sensors, transducers, and actuators. Part 2. Sensor development. 3. Reverse engineering of titanium to form TiO2 for humidity sensor applications. Part 3. Re-manufacturing. 4. Manufacturing, remanufacturing, and surface repairing of various machine tool components using laser-assisted directed energy deposition. Part 4. Metrology. 5. Investigation on dynamical prediction of tool wear based on machine vision and support vector machine. 6. In-process measurement in manufacturing processes. Part 5. Design of mechanisms and machines. 7. The convex hull of two closed implicit surfaces. 8. Design of multi-DOF micro-feed platform based on hybrid compliant mechanism. 9. Metal forming presses : technology, structure, and engineering design. Part 6. Decision making. 10. Modular approach of writing MATLAB code for a Markov decision process. 11. A smart microfactory design : an integrated approach. 12. Reverse engineering the original processes : a multiformalism approach. Part 7. Next-generation communication. 13. Next-generation national communication infrastructure (NCI) : emerging future technologies - challenges and opportunities.