Manufacturing and Service Systems for Industry 4.0/5.0

Dear Colleagues,

Under scenarios of Industry 4.0/5.0, manufacturing and service systems have emerged as key technologies for improving productivity, efficiency, and quality. The manufacturing and service systems with the core of digitalization, networking, and intelligence are becoming a powerful driving force enabling the manufacturing and services of high value-added products. New-generation information technologies (New ITs) are the core support for Industry 4.0/5.0. They greatly stimulate the development of manufacturing and service systems, such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, cyber-physical systems (CPS), blockchain, and big data analytics. Besides that, New ITs sharply increase the development of human-to-human, human-to-machine, and machine-to-machine systems with high quality and integration levels. As a result, New ITs are revolutionizing product design, manufacturing, services, and supply chains. However, the organic combination of manufacturing and service systems with New ITs still has a long way to go in order to realize intelligent manufacturing services, service-oriented intelligent manufacturing, smart service supply chains, etc.

This Special Issue welcomes a wide range of emerging topics related to advances and applications in intelligent manufacturing and service systems for Industry 4.0/5.0, with high-quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects. In this Special Issue, potential contributions related to original research articles, reviews, communications and technical notes are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Debates regarding the conation and concept architecture of manufacturing and service systems;
• Digital, networked and intelligent manufacturing systems within the context of Industry 4.0/5.0;
• Manufacturing servitization within the context of Industry 4.0/5.0;
• Smart, cloud and social manufacturing service systems based on new-generation information technologies;
• Big data analytics to enable on-demand manufacturing service systems;
• IoT-based manufacturing and service systems;
• Smart product-service systems;
• Product design for services, additive manufacturing, or others;
• Generative and computational product design systems;
• Product life-cycle engineering and systems;
• Product remote monitoring, fault diagnosis and maintenance systems;
• Manufacturing service supply chain and logistics management;
• Intelligent and sustainable supply chain management;
• Human factors within the context of Industry 4.0/5.0;
• Blockchain technologies in manufacturing and service systems;
• Green manufacturing and low-carbon manufacturing systems;
• Artificial intelligence in manufacturing and service systems;
• Manufacturing and service systems with large multi-modal models such as ChatGPT series;
• Systems engineering in manufacturing and service systems;
• System of systems in manufacturing and service systems;
• Technology and innovation management in manufacturing and service systems;
• New CAD/CAE/CAPP/CAM/MES/PDM/PLM/ERP systems and integration on the Internet or Web;
• Next-generation industrial software models for Industry 4.0/5.0;
• Intelligent and interconnected equipment, protocols, and sensor networks;
• Industrial Internet service platforms or distributed networks;
• Collective intelligence in the context of distributed manufacturing and services;
• Social impacts in manufacturing and service systems;
• Next-generation manufacturing paradigms for Industry 4.0/5.0;
• Industrial applications of intelligent manufacturing and service systems;
• Case studies of manufacturing and service systems for industrial scenarios, especially in large and complex manufacturing systems.

Please note that authors can submit their papers to the Special Issue at any time. Papers will be published online immediately after their acceptance and without delays caused by whether all paper collections are ready. This is different from the policy of a traditional Special Issue.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Prof. Dr. Pingyu Jiang
Prof. Dr. Guozhu Jia
Prof. Dr. Yuchun Xu
Prof. Dr. Bernd Kuhlenkötter
Prof. Dr. Petri Helo
Dr. Wei Guo
Guest Editors

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