Intelligent Manufacturing for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2022) | Viewed by 1907
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the 21st century, with the continuous development of digital, networked, and intelligent technologies, the information technology and manufacturing industry has become deeply integrated. Intelligent manufacturing, as the product of this in-depth integration, has greatly improved the flexibility and productivity of traditional manufacturing and has become a hot topic globally. However, the rapid development of intelligent manufacturing has caused a series of societal problems, such as energy crisis, environmental pollution, and global warming, and financial risk transmission on supply chain. Manufacturers worldwide urgently need to consider the sustainability of manufacturing processes to balance the manufacturing efficiency, economic benefits, and social benefits, and financial risk considerations, and thus realize the sustainable development of the manufacturing industry and society.
This Special Issue aims to collect and publish a selection of high-quality research works related to intelligent manufacturing for sustainability. The topics of interest in this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
- Development of modeling and simulation technologies to improve manufacturing efficiency and energy efficiency;
- Development of an effective method to balance the manufacturing efficiency and environmental benefits;
- Innovation of a manufacturing system configuration;
- Development of integrated parts of sustainable manufacturing, including green manufacturing, remanufacturing, green supply chain, and reverse logistics;
- Improvement of the remanufacturing efficiency of end-of-life products;
- Sustainable management of product lifecycle and product multi-lifecycle.
- Financial risk management including manufacturers’ financial risk control and customers credit scoring.
Prof. Wenyu Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainability
- sustainable manufacturing
- clean production
- energy-aware manufacturing
- intelligent manufacturing
- environmental protection
- remanufacturing
- green manufacturing
- green supply chain
- product multilifecycle
- sustainable supply chain
- financial risk control
