Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is a gold open access journal covering all topics in industrial and manufacturing engineering. The journal aims to publish full research papers, review papers and short communications with focus on the fundamental and applied science, as well as innovative technologies advancing the knowledge in handling and manufacturing products on component, system and society level.

The core interest of the journal Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is publishing articles that are either original physics-based investigations of processes and/or contributing technological novel ideas for increasing the efficiency and quality of processes by reducing simultaneously the environmental and social impact. A special field of interest of the journal are new methods of educating modern industrial and manufacturing engineers.

Typical areas of interest to the journal include:

• Industrial engineering: Plant design, assembly, sustainable manufacturing, supply chain, human factors and (neuro-)ergonomics, life-cycle engineering, robotics and computer-integrated manufacturing systems

• Manufacturing: Additive manufacturing, casting, welding, polymer molding, forming and joining by forming, machining, electro-discharge manufacturing, precision engineering, smart manufacturing, virtual manufacturing, machine tools technology, laser technology, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, surfaces and their metrology

• Nano- and micro-technologies: Processing nanostructured material, fabrication of micro-systems and nanodevices

• Design: Tool design, press design, component design (including manufacturing effects), products performance as a function of manufacturing

• Modelling of materials processing: New analytical models, applying existing models to new processes, material characterisation, efficient numerical models, multi-scale models, modelling process chains

• Educational contributions: New in-situ experiments, telemetric experiments, augmented reality applications, complex knowledge description, misconceptions, curriculum development in industrial and manufacturing engineering, defining technical terms

Workpiece and tool materials covered in the processes reach from metals, polymers, ceramics to biomaterials.