APMS 2019 in Austin, Texas brings together leading international experts from academia, industry, and government in the area of production systems to discuss globally pressing issues in smart manufacturing, operations management, supply chain management, and Industry 4.0. The conference features several sessions filled with original, high-impact academic contributions, which will be published in the Springer Series ACIT.  Industrial viewpoints and insights will be shared through industry keynotes by world renown industry leaders.  High quality papers will be fast tracked to several peer reviewed archival journals, including Production Planning and Control (PPC). The conference is supported by the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) and is organized by the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems which was established 1978.

The program includes presentations and discussions of peer-reviewed papers, in addition to insightful keynote speeches. The program also includes a doctoral workshop that provides young researchers the opportunity to present research proposals (September 1st ), special sessions that help raise visibility on focus topics in a particular scientific or applications area (September 2nd-4th), and industry tours, for participants to visit local manufacturing facilities (September 5th), are included in the conference program.