Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2021 (SIMES-2021)

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the success of the three previous editions and encouraged by the Manufacturing Engineering Society (MES), a new edition called “Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2021 (SIMES-2021)” has been launched as a joint issue of the journals Materials and Applied Sciences.

The first edition collected 48 contributions on emerging methods and technologies, such as those related to additive manufacturing and 3D printing, advances and innovations in manufacturing processes in different areas (machining, forming, molding, welding, and nontraditional manufacturing processes), manufacturing systems (machines, equipment and tooling), metrology and quality in manufacturing, product lifecycle management (PLM) technologies, and risks in manufacturing engineering and society.

The second edition, defined as a Joint Special Issue with the aim of covering the wide range of research lines developed by the members and collaborators of the MES and other researchers within the field of Manufacturing Engineering, collected 39 contributions—29 in Materials and 10 in Applied Sciences.

In the third edition, finally, the Joint Special Issue successfully gathered a total of 31 papers (17 in Materials and 14 in Applied Sciences).

The main objective of the “Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2021 (SIMES 2021)” is to publish outstanding papers presenting cutting-edge advances in the field of Manufacturing Engineering, focusing on materials processing, as well as on experimental and theoretical results within applied sciences.

The Special Issue aims to explore the evolution of traditional manufacturing models toward the new requirements of the Manufacturing Industry 4.0 and how manufacturing professionals should face the resulting competitive challenges in the context of an ever-increasing use of digital information systems and communication technologies.

Contributions on emerging methods and technologies such as those related to additive manufacturing will have special relevance within this Special Issue, as well as those where sustainability and environmental issues play a fundamental role in manufacturing.

The main topics covered by this Special Issue are scientific contributions on the following manufacturing research topics:

• Additive manufacturing and 3D printing;
• Advances and innovations in manufacturing processes;
• Sustainable and green manufacturing;
• Micro and nanomanufacturing;
• Manufacturing of new materials;
• Manufacturing systems: machines, equipment, and tooling;
• Robotics, mechatronics, and manufacturing automation;
• Metrology and quality in manufacturing;
• Industry 4.0;
• Product lifecycle management (PLM) technologies;
• Design, modeling, and simulation in manufacturing engineering;
• Production planning;
• Manufacturing engineering and society.

The above list is not exhaustive, and papers on other topics associated with advances in manufacturing engineering are also welcome.

Especially welcome are all works with a clear application to the manufacturing field related to processing of materials, including ceramics, glasses, polymers (plastics), semiconductors, magnetic materials, medical implant materials and biological materials, silica and carbon materials, metals and metallic alloys, composites, coatings and films, pigments, application of techniques such as electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, calorimetry and others, the analysis of manufacturing processes and systems, mechanics of materials, and tribology (friction, lubrication and wear).

It is our pleasure to invite professionals from industry, academic institutions, and research centers from around the world to submit their contributions to this Special Issue.

We hope this fourth edition of the Special Issue is as successful as the last three editions.

Dr. Álvaro Rodríguez-Prieto
Dr. Francisco Javier Trujillo Vilches
Guest Editors

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