Digital Ecosystem and Smart Manufacturing for Sustainable Development in Industry 4.0
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 April 2025) | Viewed by 925
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Industry 4.0; Industry 5.0; Industry 4.0/5.0; readiness and maturity models; production system design; collaborative workplace
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Interests: production planning; sustainable manufacturing; intelligent manufacturing and evaluating collaborative workplace on manufacturing systems efficiency
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digital ecosystems consist of suppliers, customers, trading partners, applications, data service providers and all the supporting technologies. In the transition from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 technologies, the digital ecosystem must ensure adaptability, self-organization, scalability and sustainability inspired by natural ecosystems and, at the same time, ensure cooperation between different entities. The impact of highly dynamic sustainable smart manufacturing systems (rapidly changing global demounts and new global paradigms) needs to be further explored to justify up-to-date engineering processes in globalized markets.
This Special Issue aims to present high-quality scientific works in the areas of sustainable production technologies and production management focused on digital ecosystems and smart manufacturing.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Industry 4.0/5.0;
- Digital ecosystems in Industry 4.0/5.0;
- Smart manufacturing;
- Sustainable manufacturing;
- Sustainable supply chain management;
- Sustainable logistics management;
- Human-centric manufacturing;
- Sustainable evolutionary/optimization techniques;
- Decision support systems;
- Dynamic simulation of sustainable manufacturing systems;
- Sustainable manufacturing systems;
- Production planning and scheduling;
- Industrial processes;
- Operations research and business systems simulation;
- Intelligent simulation;
- Knowledge-Based simulation;
- Real-time systems;
- Visual computing methods;
- Collaborative robotics and industrial manipulators;
- Service systems;
- Self-organizing systems;
- Virtual reality and augmented reality;
- Work study and ergonomics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Iztok Palčič
Dr. Robert Ojstersek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Industry 4.0
- Industry 5.0
- sustainable manufacturing
- digital ecosystem
- smart manufacturing
- human-centric manufacturing
- sustainable management and production
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