Delegates are invited to submit papers in or related to the following topics: Product Design and Development: Product Design, Modelling and Visualisation, Collaborative Engineering, Distributed Design, Cost Engineering, Design for manufacturing, Knowledge Based Engineering and CAD/CAM/CAE. Manufacturing Processes, Technologies and Operations: Manufacturing Process Modelling and Simulation, Manufacturing Planning and Decision Making, Intelligent CNC Machining, Feature-based Manufacturing, Rapid Manufacturing, Inspection and Measurement, Assembly Planning and Simulation. Factory and Production Systems: Virtual Factory, Digital Factory, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Factory, Factory Automation and Control, Man-Machine Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Production System Design, Reconfiguration and Optimisation. IT Systems & Interoperability: Systems Communication and Interoperability, IT-based Product-Service Systems, Service oriented and Cloud-based environments, Knowledge Management frameworks, Big Data and Data Mining, Social Media Technologies in Design and Manufacturing. Life Cycle Issues: Product, Process and Factory Life Cycle Management, Substainability, Lean Design and Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Reverse Engineering, Product-Service Systems, Product Maintenance, Re-manufacturing and Disposal, and Global Manufacturing Issues.