Smart Design and Advanced Manufacturing with Emphasis on Integrating Emerging Technologies and Production Process Sustainability: Second Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editor
Interests: intelligent fault detection and recovery; condition based monitoring; reliability; manufacturing systems; robotics; VR/RL based failure analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart design, emphasizing connectivity, virtualization, and data utilization, is a strategic approach that enables optimal utilization and efficiency for users while minimizing environmental impacts. On the other hand, advanced manufacturing focuses on manufacturing process technologies, including automation, robotics, and additive manufacturing. Using smart design and advanced manufacturing concepts, organizations continue to redesign products, processes, and customer support to achieve optimal growth and cost efficiency while challenging the market by leveraging technology as a game changer. Industry 4.0 would prepare the organization for these challenges by integrating advanced control systems with Internet technology, enabling communication.
As a result, further development in smart design (connectivity, virtualization, and data utilization), advanced manufacturing (automation, robotics, process sustainability, integration of technologies, computational methods, artificial intelligence, 3D printing), and Industry 4.0 (development of cyber-physical systems, integration of the Internet of Things, implementation for safety, security, privacy, and knowledge protection) becomes important.
Therefore, this Special Issue will bring together papers that particularly describe recent advances in these three areas. Papers that include practical experimental results are particularly encouraged.
Dr. Kouroush Jenab
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart design
- smart manufacturing
- Industry 4.0
- automation
- robotics
- process sustainability
- integration of technologies
- computational methods
- artificial intelligence
- 3D printing
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