Advanced manufacturing technologies and systems
- Micro/Nano, Electro-Mechanical Systems
- Materials and Structures
- CAD/CAE/CAM/PDM
- 3-D Printing
- Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
- Aerospace, Aviation, and Space Technologies
- Technologies for Nuclear and Medical Industries
- Modern Transportation and Vehicle Systems
- Energy Generation and Management Systems
Advanced reliability, maintenance and safety engineering and technologies
- Monitoring, Diagnosis and Prognostics
- Sensor Design, Integration and Fusion
- Remote Sensing Applications
- Risk Assessment, Reliability and Safety Engineering
- IT tools for supporting advanced reliability and maintenance engineering
Enterprise modelling and information systems
- Enterprise Modelling
- Integration and Networking
- Virtual Production Networks
- Next Generations of Infrastructures
- Collaborative Systems
- Service Oriented Architectures
- Information Systems – Control and Interoperability
- Ontologies
- Cloud Technologies
- Semantic web
- Information sharing for complex systems engineering
Modelling and optimization for complex engineered systems
- Operations Research
- Artificial Intelligence
- Multi-Agents Technologies
- Multi-Objective Optimization
- Big Data and Data Mining
- Performance Evaluation
Simulation, control and monitoring of evolutionary and adaptive production systems
- Discrete Event Simulation
- Digital Twin
- Virtual Factory
Robotics and autonomous systemsÂ
- Mechatronics
- Intelligent Transportation
- Robot Systems
- Tele-Robotics and Space Robotics
- Modelling and Optimisation in Robotics
- Automated Manufacturing Systems
- Flexible Manufacturing Systems
- Flexible Automation
- CNC Machines: Design and Optimisation
- Web-enabled Manufacturing Control and Wireless Automation
Operations management in production systems and logistics
- Design and Balancing of Production Systems
- Facility Planning and Materials Handling
- Production Planning, Scheduling and Control
- Inventory Control
- Workflow Management
- Revenue Management
- Outsourcing
- Supply Chain Engineering and Management
- Market Responsive Supply Chains
- Green Supply Chains
- ICT in Supply Chains
- Distribution and transport planning and management
- Industry 4.0 advances for operations and supply chain management
Human and social factors in production systems
- Socio-Technical and Cognitive Aspects of Automation
- Design for Reusability – Human Machine Systems
- Environment Monitoring
- Health Care Applications
- Renewable Energy Systems and Technologies
- Sustainable Economies
Lifecycle management and product-service systems (PSSs)
- PSSs and smart products design and lifecycle management
- Industrial and commercial application of PSSs
- IT tools for supporting PSSs and product lifecycle
- Knowledge-based Product Lifecycle Management
Industry 4.0: strategies, models and technologies for next-generation production systems
- Fostering Innovations in industrial field
- Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
- New business models for Industry 4.0
- Product Service Systems for Industry 4.0
- Cyber Physical Systems in manufacturing
- Semantic technologies for Industry 4.0
