Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

Dear Colleagues,

With the advent of disruptive digital technologies, companies are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Advanced manufacturing systems are of paramount importance in making key enabling technologies and new products more competitive, affordable and accessible as well as fostering their economic and social impact. This Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, devoted to the broad field of “Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Systems”, aims to explore recent research into the concepts, methods, tools, and applications for smart sustainable manufacturing in order to advance and promote the development of modern and intelligent manufacturing systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Design of sustainable production systems and factories

• Industrial big data analytics and cyber physical systems for engineering asset management

• Intelligent maintenance approaches and technologies for increased operating life of production systems

• Zero-defect manufacturing strategies, tools and methods towards on-line production management

• Connected smart factories

• Adaptation of work environments with changing levels of automation in evolving production systems

• Flexible and customised manufacturing

• Resource and energy efficient manufacturing

• Green scheduling

• Manufacturing waste management, recycling and reuse

• Eco-design in smart factories of industry 4.0

Prof. Dimitrios Kyritsis
Dr. Gökan May
Guest Editors

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