Smart Manufacturing for an Integrated Model of Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: quality engineering; total quality management; production engineering; process development; product development; lean manufacturing; quality management; production planning; quality improvement; production metrology; Industry 4.0; AI and ML
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to bridge cutting-edge automation (IoT, AI, robotics) with human-centric, sustainable approaches. Your expertise in manufacturing/industrial AI/cobotics/sustainable manufacturing, would greatly enrich this discourse.
Topics of interest include the following:
- Converging Technologies for Hybrid Smart Manufacturing
- Bridging industrial IoT (IIoT) with human-centric AI in manufacturing systems
- Digital Twins for synchronizing physical and human–digital workflows
- Interoperability standards for legacy and next-gen smart factories
- Edge-to-cloud architectures for real-time human–machine decision making
- Collaborative Intelligence in Manufacturing
- Cobots 2.0: adaptive robotics with emotional AI for worker interaction
- Swarm Manufacturing: decentralized human–robot teams for agile production
- Human-in-the-loop AI for dynamic process optimization
- Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) for intuitive factory control systems
- Sustainable and Resilient Integrated Manufacturing
- Bio-Inspired Manufacturing: merging nature’s efficiency with Industry 5.0
- Resilience by Design: cyber–physical systems for pandemic/disruption recovery
- Self-Healing Supply Chains: AI + blockchain for the circular economy
- Energy-aware Digital Twins for carbon-neutral smart factories
- Hyper-Personalization and Ethical Manufacturing
- Data sovereignty in consumer-centric smart manufacturing
- 3D-printed on-demand manufacturing with customer co-design
- Ethical AI frameworks for bias-free personalized manufacturing
- Generative AI for mass customization with human creativity
- Workforce Evolution in Integrated Factories
- Neuroergonomics: optimizing human performance in AI-augmented lines
- Gamification of manufacturing tasks for enhanced worker rngagement
- Redefining leadership in human–machine collaborative environments
- Metaverse-based training for hybrid human–digital workforces
- Cybersecurity and Trust in Hybrid Systems
- Behavioral biometrics for secure human–machine authentication
- Digital immune systems for self-protecting factories
- Explainable AI (XAI) for auditable smart manufacturing decisions
- Quantum-resistant encryption for human–robot data networks
- Implementation Roadmaps and Case Studies
- Industry 4.0 to 5.0 Transition Benchmarks: best practices and pitfalls
- SME Success Stories: affordable pathways to integrated smart manufacturing
- Cultural barriers to human-centric automation in global supply chains
- Policy Sandboxes: government–industry collaboration for ethical innovation
- Future Horizons and Disruptive Paradigms
- Space Manufacturing: adapting Industry 5.0 principles for off-world manufacturing
- Self-Evolving Factories: AI that designs its own upgrades
- Biohybrid Manufacturing: integrating synthetic biology with smart systems
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Vidosav D. Majstorovic
Prof. Dr. Isak Karabegović
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- manufacturing
- industrial AI
- cobotics
- sustainable manufacturing
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