Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

• Innovative technologies in manufacturing
• Laser in production
• Simulation of manufacturing processes
• Intelligent manufacturing of smart & new products
• Manufacturing processes for advanced materials
• Micro and Nano manufacturing
• Additive Manufacturing
• Advanced machine architectures and control technologies
• Innovative metrology
• Reverse Engineering

 

Lifecycle Engineering and Assembly

• Life cycle design and manufacturing
• Re-manufacturing and de-manufacturing of high added value products
• Production System Retrofitting
• Robots and Machine tools made from recycled parts
• Clean products and technologies
• Assembly technologies and systems

 

Manufacturing Systems and Models

• Flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems
• Agile manufacturing
• Adaptive manufacturing Systems
• Robotic cells
• Digital Factory
• Distributed Manufacturing
• Cloud Manufacturing
• Emergent Synthesis
• Manufacturing systems modeling, simulation and optimization
• Manufacturing systems planning, control and scheduling
• Manufacturing networks
• Concurrent Engineering
• Virtual reality and manufacturing
• Digital manufacturing

 

Manufacturing Knowledge and Human Interaction

•  Human factors in manufacturing
• Human machine interaction in manufacturing
• Learning Factories
• Logistics and Manufacturing data management
• Methods & tools for Knowledge Management & skills adaptation
• Manufacturing education and training
• Lesson learned from the industrial world and future challenges

 

Resource, Energy and Time Efficiency

• Towards zero wastes and scraps in manufacturing
• Eco-efficiency in manufacturing
• Green manufacturing
• Resource efficiency
• Energy consumption monitoring
• Environmentally sustainable manufacturing
• Intelligent Maintenance
• Clean Manufacturing
• Supply Chain and Global Production Management, E-Manufacturing
• Lean production
• Quality Engineering