Industry 5.0 and Digital Practices in Multidisciplinary Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Recent growth in digital practices has made traditional mechanical engineering practices redundant, and thus encouraged industries to embrace digital technologies, including metaverse, digital design, deep learning, etc. This insurgency led to the development of Industry 5.0, where the digital technologies are augmented with human collaboration, creating a hybrid system deriving the best of both worlds. The digital revolution brought about by Industry 5.0 has paved the way to extreme automation, enabling efficient data transfer in conjunction with Internet of Things (IOT), artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and big data. However, challenges such as increasing complexities and unprecedented circumstances emphasize the need for human–machine collaborative systems for obtaining accuracy and speed in digital implementation.

As the digital transformation due to Industry 4.0 has made a massive change in the business models of sectors such as manufacturing and construction, this Special Issue takes it forward and explores the multidisciplinary applications of Industry 5.0. This Special Issue provides an opportunity for academicians/industrialists to submit papers that provide insights into Industry 5.0 and digital practices in interdisciplinary engineering applications. We welcome papers that demonstrate new developments in Industry 5.0 with applications to digital design, human–machine integration, and big data in all engineering fields (e.g., mechanical, robotic, mechatronic).

Research topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Digital design and manufacturing;
• Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT);
• Big data;
• Augmented reality (AR);
• Virtual reality (VR);
• Industry 5.0;
• Quantum Artificial Intelligence;
• Machine learning and deep learning;
• Human–computer interface (HCI).

Dr. Ambarish Kulkarni
Guest Editor

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