Human-Centred Manufacturing Towards Industry 5.0

A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Manufacturing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 417

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Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: robotic systems; automation; augmented, mixed, and virtual reality in manufacturing; manufacturing process modeling; cloud technologies; Internet of things (IoT); digital twin; 5G; artificial intelligence; product–service systems (PSS); Industry 4.0; Industry 5.0, Industrial Metaverse
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Department of Management Science and Technology, University of Patras, 26334 Patras, Greece
Interests: numerical analysis; computational methods; artificial neural networks; information systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has become an integral part of industrial life, and research and progress is already being made towards the Fifth Industrial Revolution or Industry 5.0. Industry 5.0 describes the transformation of industry around the pillars of sustainability, resilience, and human-centricity. It harnesses the integration of digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing, together with Digital Twins, Big Data Analytics, and more, to bring forth an era of collaboration between human and machine intelligence. The goal of Industry 5.0 is leveraging system optimization and enhanced decision-making to combat the dynamic fluctuations of the globalized market and ensure human, system, and network stability in these uncertain times. To achieve this, researchers and industrial agents have already taken steps towards interaction and collaboration between humans and machines, leading to the concept of human-centric manufacturing.

Prof. Dr. Dimitris Mourtzis
Guest Editor

Dr. Dimitris F. Papadopoulos
Co-Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Industry 5.0
  • human-centricity
  • resilience
  • sustainability
  • digital manufacturing

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