Advanced manufacturing technologies and systems

• Micro/Nano, Electro-Mechanical Systems

• Materials and Structures

• CAD/CAE/CAM/PDM

• 3-D Printing

• Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

• Aerospace, Aviation, and Space Technologies

• Technologies for Nuclear and Medical Industries

• Modern Transportation and Vehicle Systems

• Energy Generation and Management Systems

Advanced reliability, maintenance and safety engineering and technologies

• Monitoring, Diagnosis and Prognostics

• Sensor Design, Integration and Fusion

• Remote Sensing Applications

• Risk Assessment, Reliability and Safety Engineering

• IT tools for supporting advanced reliability and maintenance engineering

Enterprise modelling and information systems

• Enterprise Modelling

• Integration and Networking

• Virtual Production Networks

• Next Generations of Infrastructures

• Collaborative Systems

• Service Oriented Architectures

• Information Systems – Control and Interoperability

• Ontologies

• Cloud Technologies

• Semantic web

Modelling and optimization for complex engineered systems

• Operations Research

• Artificial Intelligence

• Multi-Agents Technologies

• Multi-Objective Optimization

• Big Data and Data Mining

• Performance Evaluation

Simulation, control and monitoring of evolutionary and adaptive production systems

• Discrete Event Simulation

• Digital Twin

• Virtual Factory

Robotics and autonomous systems 

• Mechatronics

• Intelligent Transportation

• Robot Systems

• Tele-Robotics and Space Robotics

• Modelling and Optimisation in Robotics

• Automated Manufacturing Systems

• Flexible Manufacturing Systems

• Flexible Automation

• CNC Machines: Design and Optimisation

• Web-enabled Manufacturing Control and Wireless Automation

Operations management in production systems and logistics

• Design and Balancing of Production Systems

• Facility Planning and Materials Handling

• Production Planning, Scheduling and Control

• Inventory Control

• Workflow Management

• Revenue Management

• Outsourcing

• Supply Chain Engineering and Management

• Market Responsive Supply Chains

• Green Supply Chains

• ICT in Supply Chains

• Distribution and transport planning and management

• Industry 4.0 advances for operations and supply chain management

Human and social factors in production systems

• Socio-Technical and Cognitive Aspects of Automation

• Design for Reusability – Human Machine Systems

• Environment Monitoring

• Health Care Applications

• Renewable Energy Systems and Technologies

• Sustainable Economies

Lifecycle management and product-service systems (PSSs)

• PSSs and smart products design and lifecycle management

• Industrial and commercial application of PSSs

• IT tools for supporting PSSs and product lifecycle

• Knowledge-based Product Lifecycle Management

Industry 4.0: strategies, models and technologies for next-generation production systems

• Fostering Innovations in industrial field

• Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

• New business models for Industry 4.0

• Product Service Systems for Industry 4.0

• Cyber Physical Systems in manufacturing

• Semantic technologies for Industry 4.0