Sustainability in Manufacturing

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Special Issue of “Sustainability in Manufacturing” in the journal Sustainability. The manufacturing industry is of paramount importance for economic and social development. Today, a large and continuously-growing amount of manufacturing companies has realized the substantial economic, environmental and social benefits from sustainable manufacturing processes. Sustainable manufacturing refers to the production of goods through economically efficient processes that save resources and energy while simultaneously decrease the negative influences on the environment. This Special Issue focuses on the innovative and cross-disciplinary solutions for improving economic, environmental and social sustainability in manufacturing processes, i.e., innovative product development, sustainable production planning, sustainable logistics and supply chain management, as well as sustainable manufacturing technologies.   

Original researches, case studies and reports, short communications, and comprehensive literature reviews focusing on the cutting-edge development of methods, techniques and application related to economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainable manufacturing are invited for submission to this Special Issue. The Special Issue also includes several exclusively invited papers from two international conferences—the 1^st International Symposium on Small-scale Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (SIMS 2016), held at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Narvik, Norway, on 21–24 June, 2016, and the International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2016), held at the University of Manchester, UK, on 10–11 November, 2016.    

We thank you very much for your contribution to this Special Issue.

Prof. Wei Deng Solvang
Prof. Kesheng Wang
Prof. Bjørn Solvang
Prof. Peter Korondi
Assoc. Prof. Gabor Sziebig
Guest Editors

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