Topics

✓ Moulding and casting processes
✓ Bulk and sheet forming processes
✓ Material removal processes
✓ Non-traditional manufacturing processes
✓ Welding, joining and assembly processes
✓ Micro-and nano-manufacturing
✓ Emerging manufacturing processes, equipment and tooling
✓ Manufacturing with new materials (bio-, multi-, multi‐functional, smart-materials)

✓ Cleaner production and technical processes
✓ Green product designing
✓ Materials replacement and/or substitution
✓ Energy consumption measurement
✓ Life Cycle Assessment and quantitative measurement methods
✓ Advances in remanufacturing processes
✓ Sustainable Consumption

✓ Methodologies and techniques of manufacturing in the digital Smart Industry
✓ Technologies for the integration of data based and digital systems
✓ Organization and management for implementing Smart Industry
✓ Artificial Intelligence (AI) in manufacturing
✓ Digital manufacturing, Virtual manufacturing, and Digital twin.
✓ Computer-aided technologies (CAx) and Computer-Integrated manufacturing (CIM)
✓ Ontology-based engineering (OBE)
✓ Product data management (PDM) and Product lifecycle management (PLM)

✓ Additive manufacturing (AM) processes
✓ Design for AM
✓ Material selection and characterization in AM.
✓ Precision and quality aspects in AM
✓ Post processing of AM components
✓ Experimental, simulation, optimization, and data analysis developments in AM
✓ Special applications

✓ Adaptive and intelligent manufacturing systems
✓ Integrated development of products and processes
✓ Machine tool design and performance
✓ Holonic, smart and cyber-physical manufacturing systems
✓ Zero-defects and zero-accidents approaches
✓ Sensors, actuators, and control system components in manufacturing processes.
✓ Mechatronics, automation, and robot applications in manufacturing

✓ Tolerancing, inspection technologies and testing
✓ Measurement systems and techniques
✓ Industrial quality
✓ Monitoring, sensing and control for manufacturing and inspection
✓ Virtual metrology
✓ Process and production planning
✓ Concurrent and collaborative engineering in manufacturing
✓ Lean manufacturing
✓ Risk engineering in manufacturing

✓ Training and education in manufacturing engineering
✓ Design of manufacturing engineering learning environments
✓ New trends and training strategies in manufacturing education
✓ History and evolution of manufacturing technologies
✓ Industrial heritage in manufacturing
✓ Social impact of manufacturing
✓ Occupational health, safety and welfare in manufacturing