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 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
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
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