Advances in Green Manufacturing and Optimization

Dear Colleagues,

The rising carbon dioxide emissions and waste streams from industry sectors is a crucial factor for global warming. Therefore, the development of scientific and engineering solutions for green manufacturing is becoming an emerging topic to help reduce carbon intensity and other production waste, and to enhance the utilization of energy and natural resources. The recent advancement of intelligence technologies further expands the scope of typical environmentally conscious manufacturing, making modeling, analysis, real-time monitoring, control, and optimization of production and service automation more effective and efficient.

This Special Issue on “Advances in Green Manufacturing and Optimization” is to report the latest advancements in green manufacturing, with a focus on the development and deployment of new analytical models, frameworks, optimization algorithms, and management strategies aiming at improving the sustainability of manufacturing. The ultimate goal of this Special Issue is to foster the dissemination of high-quality research in terms of theory and practices related to green manufacturing automation. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Modeling and optimization of energy-aware manufacturing
• Modeling and optimization of demanufacturing and remanufacturing;
• Green process design and operation: production planning and scheduling
• Green product design
• Materials for green manufacturing
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning in green manufacturing for product quality and process control
• Life-cycle assessment: streamlined methods and case studies
• Sustainable manufacturing practices
• Smart paradigms for sustainability in manufacturing

Prof. Dr. Michele Dassisti
Dr. Shixin Liu
Guest Editors

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