Sustainable Cyber-Physical Production and Manufacturing Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The focus of this Special Issue is on the growing deployment of cyber-physical production networks throughout Industry-4.0-based manufacturing systems, sustainable smart manufacturing such as cyber-physical production systems, and real-time process monitoring and sustainable product lifecycle management in cyber-physical-system-based manufacturing. The scope of this Special Issue covers topics proving how the manufacturing cyber-physical system possesses progressively automated linkages and networking, leading to big-data-driven innovation in sustainable Industry 4.0; how smart manufacturing makes cyber-physical production networks more well organized and sustainable through the use of artificial intelligence-based decision-making algorithms; how by deploying groundbreaking sensors, input modeling, computing, and big data analytics technologies, cyber-physical production systems can become smart and sustainable; how cyber-physical smart manufacturing systems function in an automated, robust, and flexible manner, thus managing sustainability issues adequately; and how cyber-physical production networks operate automatically and smoothly with artificial-intelligence-based decision-making algorithms and Internet-of-Things-based real-time production logistics. The purpose of this Special Issue is to clarify how automated functions can contribute to increased productivity and decrease in work-in-process throughout deep-learning-assisted smart process planning and cyber-physical-system-based manufacturing by sensor network implementation; how automated production systems and industrial artificial intelligence enable the operations performed by cyber-physical-system-based smart factories through big-data-driven innovation and sustainable industrial value creation; and how industrial big data, cognitive decision-making algorithms, and Internet of Things sensing networks are instrumental in configuring sustainable organizational performance across cyber-physical smart manufacturing systems.

Prof. Dr. George Lăzăroiu
Guest Editor

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• sustainable industrial value creation
• cyber-physical smart manufacturing system
• industrial big data
• deep-learning-assisted smart process planning
• artificial-intelligence-based decision-making algorithms
• Internet-of-Things-based real-time production logistics