The APMS 2012 theme is "Competitive Manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services" and is structured in two special sessions entitled “Design for Mass Customized Products and Services” and “Manufacturing and Supply Chain in a Mass customization Environment”. The topics of most interest covered in these sessions are:
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
Important dates in regard to these sessions:
| Submission of Extended Abstract: |
15 May 2012 (extended) |
| Review Notification: |
8 June 2012 |
| Final Papers received: |
6 July 2012 |
| Early Registration deadline: |
15 July 2012 |
| Doctoral Workshops: |
22-23 September 2012 |
| IFIP WG5.7 meeting: |
23 Sep 2012 |
| Conference: |
24-26 Sep 2012 |
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