Design and Management of Manufacturing Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Because of growing globalization and contemporary market demands, manufacturing efficiency is more and more often defined not only as the capacity for low-cost production of specified quality products, but also as the capacity for quick execution of variable and low-volume orders at reduced manufacturing costs. In this context, new practical and scientific results are of great interest and importance for industrial engineering. Special attention is continuously given to the problems of reducing manufacturing costs by manufacturing systems design and production process planning, organization, and control. Therefore, I would like to invite you to submit your research papers to the Special Issue of the Applied Sciences journal “Design and Management of Manufacturing Systems”. 

This Special Issue seeks high-quality works focusing on the following topics:

• focused flexibility manufacturing systems design;
• reconfigurable manufacturing systems design;
• continuous improvements in production units;
• manufacturing systems capacity balancing;
• optimal and sustainable production planning;
• robust cyclic scheduling;
• multicriteria optimization in operations management;
• sustainable material handling systems design;
• AI driven production planning and control.

I look forward to receiving your contributions for this Special Issue.

Dr. Arkadiusz Gola

Guest Editor

Dr. Arkadiusz Gola
Guest Editor

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