Modeling, Design, Optimization and Maintenance of Intelligent Manufacturing Towards Industry 5.0—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

As the industrial sector progresses toward Industry 5.0, intelligent manufacturing system modeling, design, optimization, and maintenance have garnered increasing scholarly attention. This evolution emphasizes the integration of advanced cyber–physical systems, artificial intelligence, and human-centric technologies to foster sustainability, efficiency, and resilience in production processes. Central to this paradigm shift are the principles of process modeling, multi-objective optimization, and predictive maintenance, which are applied across various scales—from individual-unit operations to entire manufacturing ecosystems. These methodologies aim to enhance resource utilization, minimize energy consumption, and improve system adaptability. Industry 5.0 represents a convergence of human ingenuity and machine precision, leading to a synergistic enhancement of manufacturing capabilities that transcends the limitations of traditional industrial frameworks.

This Special Issue entitled “Modeling, Design, Optimization and Maintenance of Intelligent Manufacturing Towards Industry 5.0—2nd Edition” seeks high-quality works focusing on the latest novel advancements in technology for intelligent manufacturing systems. Topics include, but are not limited to, methods and/or application in the following areas:

• Smart manufacturing;
• Industrial fault diagnostics and prognosis;
• Predictive maintenance;
• Industrial reliability assessment;
• AI-driven optimization;
• Digital twins;
• Human–AI collaboration;
• Industrial IoT;
• Data-driven decision-making.

Dr. Yang Li
Dr. Cunsong Wang
Prof. Dr. Cuimei Bo
Dr. Jianye Gong
Guest Editors

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