Conference Topics

APMS 2011 was dedicated to Valuable Networks: Innovation, Technology and Management. According to this main theme, APMS 2011 had contributions in the following contexts.

Production, Operations and Supply Chain Strategy

  • Capacity Planning
  • Production Planning, Scheduling & Control
  • Inventory Management
  • Procurement, Logistics and Distribution Management

Service Operations Management

  • Industrial Services
  • Professional Services
  • Service Supply Networks
  • Maintenance Management
  • After-sales Service

Quality Management

Product Lifecycle Management

  • Product/Process/Service innovation
  • Interaction with Production Management

Sustainability in Production

  • Sustainable Operations & Manufacturing
  • Eco-efficient manufacturing
  • Economic, social and environmental issues

Globalisation of Supply Networks

  • Virtual, Extended, Collaborative enterprises

Operational excellence

  • JIT, TPM, Kaizen
  • Lean Manufacturing and Services
  • Best practices

Safety and Health Management

Advanced Manufacturing and Production Systems

Automation and Integration in Manufacturing

  • Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
  • Virtual, Digital and Smart Factory
  • Collaborative Manufacturing
  • Wireless and Mobile Factory

Business Process Management

  • Modelling of Business and Operational Processes
  • Modelling of Production Systems
  • Simulation
  • Project and Risk Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Performance Measurement and Benchmarking
  • Innovations in Networks

Education, learning and training

ICT systems for Operations and Supply Chain Management

  • ERP, CAPM, PDM, PLM, CRM, SRM, APS, MES, etc.
  • CIM,
  • e-operations, e-manufacturing, e-xxx
  • Management of IT

Standard in ManufacturingGovernance

Corporate Social Responsibility

Environmental and Social Certifications

Social Enterprises

Risk management 

KPI for Sustainability

  • Sustainability Reporting
  • Sustainability and Accountability
  • Segmental approaches to Sustainability Reporting
  • Sustainability Scorecards
  • Green accounting

 There were also some special sessions:

  • Managing Operations Globally
  • MRP: New advances and applications
  • Business Intelligence, Diagnostics and Beyond
  • Service Manufacturing Systems
  • From Academic innovation to practical application