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APMS 2010 was dedicated to Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing, Products and Services, with the following topics:

  • Sustainable Manufacturing and Operations
    • Industrial Engineering
    • Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering
    • Digital Production and Manufacturing
    • Technology and Innovation Management
    • Production Technology, Systems and Management
    • Sustainable factory planning and scheduling
    • Advanced Manufacturing
    • Lean Production
    • Maintenance and Reliability
    • Global and International Production Networks
    • Green Supply Chain Management
    • Green Manufacturing 
    • Production Quality and Standards
    • Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing
    • Resource Efficiency and Sustainability
    • Zero waste production
    • End-of-life Management
    • Reuse, remanufacture, disassembly and recycling approaches and techniques
    • Reverse logistics and product recovery
    • ICT for Manufacturing and Logistics 
  • Sustainable Product
    • Multidisciplinary Product Development
    • Hybrid Products
    • Innovation Clusters
    • Virtual Engineering
    • Social LCA, Methods and tools
    • Quantitative Sustainability Assessment
    • Sustainable business models
    • Eco-design and Eco-innovation
    • End-of-life strategies
    • Design for local and global consumers
    • Smart design for sustainability
    • Closed loop design and closed loop economy
    • Design Management 
  • Sustainable Services
    • Service Engineering
    • Service Management
    • Integrated product/service policy
    • Business Models for Services
    • Service Strategy
    • Service and Product-Service Systems Engineering
    • Service Innovation
    • Design for Service
    • Service Operations Management
    • Service Chain
    • Product Service Systems in the business-to-business industry or in the business-to-consumer industry
    • Impact of ICT on service design, service processes and management
    • Product-service system simulation
    • Knowledge Management for Service
    • Service LifeCycle Management
    • After-Sales Services
    • Public Sector
    • Professional Services
    • Healthcare Service 
  • Environmental and Social Issues  
  • Strategy for Sustainability
    • Sustainability proactive strategies
    • Trade-off management
    • Sustainability and Corporate Governance
    • 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