APMS 2026 brings together leading international experts from academia, industry, and government to explore how sustainability, data, and human factors are reshaping the future of production.

The conference will focus on innovations that enable sustainable manufacturing, data-driven decision-making, and the integration of human and artificial intelligence in next-generation production systems. Key themes include smart and autonomous factories, resilient and sustainable supply chains, human-centric AI applications, and new approaches to data governance and industrial collaboration.

The conference will feature original, high-impact academic contributions, which will be published in the Springer Series AICT. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by IFIP Working Group 5.7, established in 1978.

More information will be published soon!

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

We also invite papers within the areas of the IFIP WG 5.7 special interest groups, which are:

• Serious Games in Production Management Environments
• Product and Asset Lifecycle Management
• Service Systems Design, Engineering and Management
• Smart Manufacturing Applications
• Smart Manufacturing Ontologies & Data Interoperability
• Lean Thinking & Practice
• Operations Management in Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing
• Smart and Sustainable Supply Chain Management
• Eco-Efficient and Circular Industrial Systems
• Human-Centered Systems

In addition to the conference topics, we invite proposals for a set of focused session that address specific topics related to production management. See “Special Session” for more information.