Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editors
Interests: precision manufacturing; advanced manufacturing technologies; digital manufacturing; precision manufacturing; measurement uncertainty; 3D coordinate metrology
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Interests: CAD/CAM; computer graphics; Industry 4.0; cutting and packing and optimization problems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart manufacturing processes and systems have been receiving a great amount of attention through the latest innovations, ongoing efforts, and best practices in the Industry 4.0 era. The concept of the smart factory—along with its cyber-physical systems, intelligent support for manufacturing decision-making, and intelligent inspection to monitor production health—has become increasingly central to modern industrial transformation.
This includes in situ data collection and fusion of sensor information for manufacturing processes, collaborative robots, self-configuration and self-diagnosis, the Internet of Things for shop floors, intelligent prescriptive and preventive maintenance, simulation-assisted process control and digital twins, big data analytics for manufacturing systems and processes, on-demand and customized production through hybrid additive and subtractive manufacturing, autonomy and autonomous vehicles, smart quality assurance and intelligent inspection, data-driven and model-based prognostics, and zero-defect production.
This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims to showcase new initiatives, applications, and research advances in smart manufacturing processes and systems that address the needs of the fourth industrial revolution.
Dr. Ahmad Barari
Dr. Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart manufacturing
- intelligent manufacturing
- Industry 4.0
- digital manufacturing
- digital metrology
- intelligent support systems
- manufacturing process control
- smart quality assurance
- intelligent inspection
- predictive and prescriptive maintenance
- model-based prognostics
- vision systems
- collaborative robots
- manufacturing health management
- artificial intelligence for manufacturing processes
- big data analytics
- sensor information
- digital twins
- manufacturing virtualization and simulation
- self-configuration and self-diagnosis
- Internet of Things
- self-optimization models
- scheduling and sequencing
- blockchain technology
- resource efficiency
- circular economy tracking
- autonomy
- autonomous vehicles
- drones
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