Advances in Sustainable Smart Manufacturing and Industrial Intelligence
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial artificial intelligence; industrial intelligence networking; service-oriented manufacturing
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Interests: smart manufacturing; industrial intelligence; mass personalization; enterprise digital transformation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart manufacturing systems have become a key way of enhancing enterprise intelligence, greenness, and sustainability. Smart, green, and sustainable designs have become the focus of attention for enterprises and researchers. We invite scholars and enterprises of all disciplines to share their interests and successful cases here. Example topics include applications of AI in smart manufacturing, innovations in smart manufacturing models, intelligence of smart manufacturing businesses, sustainable development of enterprises, construction routes of smart manufacturing, etc.
Original research articles and reviews papers are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Sustainable smart manufacturing;
- Enterprise digital transformation;
- Smart/green/sustainable manufacturing systems;
- Smart/green/sustainable supply chains;
- Smart production system designs;
- Industrial artificial intelligence;
- Industrial intelligence networking;
- Service-oriented manufacturing;
- Self-adaptive scheduling;
- Smart lean operations;
- Productive services;
- Manufacturing service outsourcing;
- Sustainable value;
- Sustainable development.
This Special Issue aims to enable manufacturing industries to explore the mature technologies, methods, and models that are currently available. By sharing knowledge amongst experts and scholars, cutting-edge methods can be promoted and applied in order to promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, achieve digitization, intelligence, greening, sustainability, and sustainable stakeholder value.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Xinguo Ming
Dr. Xianyu Zhang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- smart manufacturing
- digital manufacturing
- green manufacturing
- sustainable manufacturing, sustainable value network
- smart product severs systems
- industrial artificial intelligence
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