Scope & Topics
The conference scope addresses the conference theme “Managing Variety in Manufacturing” from product innovation and design to retirement and re-cycling throughout the whole product and manufacturing systems’ life cycle. It will cover a wide range of manufacturing systems topics including but not limited to:
| Design of products, systems, families and platforms |
Production systems evolution and co-development
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Process, production, factory planning for Variety
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Business models, strategic enterprise planning for change
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Mass customization and personalization
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Variety management techniques
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Reconfiguration, scalability & capacity planning
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Ramp-up strategies for product variants
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Flexibility, re-configuration and changeability
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Intelligent, adaptive and e-manufacturing
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X-to-Order (engineering, design, manufacture, logistics)
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Digital and rapid manufacturing
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Learning factories and manufacturing education
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Energy-efficient processes and systems
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Globalization and capacity planning
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Beyond lean manufacturing
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Complexity management
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Variety and quality of products and processes
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| Logistics, supply chains & production networks |
Knowledge management in changeable manufacturing
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| Sustainability of manufacturing systems |
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Program Features:
- Industrial and Academic Keynote Speakers
- International / Industrial Panels
- Special thematic Tracks (e.g. Variety Enablers, Digital Manufacturing, Learning Factories and Education, Complexity, Quality, ..)
- Best Paper Award
- Tours of the CEI Environmental “LEED” certified building and research Laboratories.
- Demonstration of the “iFactory” and on-going research in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Center
