Topics

APMS 2012 is dedicated to Competitive Manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services, with the following topics (but not limited to them):

Advanced Design, Manufacturing & Production Management

  • Capacity Planning and Control
  • Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering
  • Closed loop design and closed loop economy
  • Design for local and global consumers
  • Design management
  • Empirical Modelling and Simulation
  • Global and International Production Networks
  • Hybrid Products
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Lean Production
  • Mass Customization
  • Multidisciplinary Product Development
  • Plant Location, Design and Layout
  • Robotics in Manufacturing
  • Smart Manufacturing
  • Standardisation and Interoperability in Production Management

Services

  • After-Sales Services
  • Business Models for Services
  • Design for Service
  • Integrated product/service policy
  • Product Service Systems in the business-to-business industry or in the business-to-consumer industry
  • Product-service systems simulation
  • Service Innovation, Management, Engineering, Operations and Strategies
  • Service Chains
  • Service Life-Cycle Management


Asset Lifecycle Management

  • Dependability and Maintenance Availability
  • E-Maintenance
  • LCA Methods and tools
  • Maintenance and Reliability
  • Standardisation and Interoperability in Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Total Productive Maintenance


Operations & Logistics

  • E-business and Operations
  • Global operations management
  • Inventory Management
  • Operations Planning, Scheduling and Control
  • Logistics
  • Reverse logistics and product recovery
  • Supply Networks and supply chain management


Sustainability

  • Eco-design and Eco-innovation
  • Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing
  • Sustainable business models
  • Green Supply Chain Management
  • Green Manufacturing
  • Resource Efficiency and Sustainability
  • Smart design for sustainability
  • Sustainability performance assessment, management and reporting
  • Sustainable factory planning and scheduling
  • Sustainability metrics
  • Zero waste production

PLM

  • End-of-life strategies
  • Closed loop PLM
  • Information modeling and integration for PLM
  • Metrics for PLM
  • Reuse, remanufacture, disassembly and recycling approaches and techniques
  • Standardisation and interoperabiity for PLM


Human Factors, Innovation, Quality & Knowledge Management

  • Health & Safety in Production and Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Innovation Clusters
  • Knowledge Management for Product & Services Innovation
  • Product Development and Innovation
  • Production Quality and Standards
  • Social Enterprises
  • Technology and Innovation Management
  • Training in Production Management (incl. e-learning, social learning, Cases, Games, Contests, and Simulations)

Performance & Risk Management

  • Performance Measurement and Management
  • Risk Management and Resilience

ICT & Enabling Technologies

  • Collaborative and social tools in Production and Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Computational intelligence in manufacturing  & production management
  • Digital Production and Manufacturing
  • Emerging Technologies in Product, Production and Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems & Interoperability
  • ICT for Manufacturing, Services, Logistics and Production Management
  • Linked Data in Products and Manufacturing
  • Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Production and Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Production Technology, Systems and Management
  • Virtual Engineering & Manufacturing