Artificial Intelligence Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing
A special issue of Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (ISSN 2504-4494).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial automation and control; industrial informatics; modeling, simulation and optimization; cyber-physical systems; intelligent manufacturing systems; machine learning; system engineering; software engineering
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Interests: intelligent systems and control; computational intelligence; fuzzy systems for modeling; monitoring and fault diagnosis of complex industrial systems; learning algorithms for identification; monitoring; performance analysis and anomaly detection in large industrial systems; big data analysis for behavior prediction of complex systems; data compression and decision making; unsupervised and supervised learning and similarity analysis; clustering and classification of large data sets; evolving systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are at the heart of Industry 4.0, revolutionizing the manufacturing sector by making it more intelligent, autonomous, and sustainable. AI in manufacturing can be broadly categorized into Conventional AI and Generative AI, each serving distinct roles.
Conventional AI, including rule-based systems, expert systems, and traditional machine learning, is task-driven, excelling in structured, rule-based, and task-specific problem-solving. In contrast, Generative AI is creativity-driven, generating new content based on the patterns it has learned. With Generative AI, manufacturing is evolving beyond automation into intelligent self-optimization, enabling factories to become smarter and more adaptable.
The Special Issue "Artificial Intelligence Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing" focuses on integrating AI systems to enhance efficiency, flexibility, sustainability, and decision-making, thereby ensuring competitiveness in the digital era. We invite papers exploring advancements in:
- Conventional AI for automation, predictive maintenance, decision-making, classification, recognition, optimization, personalization, and rule-based systems.
- Generative AI for content creation, creative assistance, data augmentation, simulation, modeling, code generation, and human-like interaction.
Preference will be given to research that offers sustainable and efficient solutions in Generative AI for next-generation intelligent manufacturing, particularly those that leverage AI agents and multi-agent systems. This issue brings together cutting-edge research and case studies demonstrating how AI-driven systems are transforming traditional manufacturing into intelligent, adaptive, and highly efficient production environments.
Prof. Dr. Idilia Batchkova
Prof. Dr. Gancho L. Vachkov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- intelligent manufacturing
- machine learning
- deep learning
- generative AI
- industrial automation
- predictive maintenance
- process optimization
- quality control
- digital twin
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