Third Announcement and Call for Papers
The recent financial global crisis has accelerated the need for a sustainable economic growth where smarter and greener economy could create prosperity and new job from innovation and from using the natural resources better than before. In this global context, besides the role of the policy makers, companies cannot postpone anymore the implementation of strategies to deal with an increasing competition in a sustainable, green and environmental-conscious and social-oriented market: strict regulations, consumers demand for greener products, reduction of the carbon footprint, optimization of the usage of natural resources, more societal attention and many other trends are increasing the challenges to compete in a real global market. Companies are therefore called to become more efficient, increase their productivity, use less resources and non-renewable energy in an environment with high energy prices, carbon constraints and greater resource competition.
These challenges require a deep rethinking of the role of Manufacturing with the need for new approaches to Product, Service and Production Management: from a cost-cutting to a multi-disciplinary knowledge-based eco-factory model. With this goal in mind, APMS2010 calls for new, innovative and original scientific contributions which address practical and industrial-oriented solutions where the above context is addressed.
APMS 2010 at a glance
Since several decades, APMS is one of the major events and the official conference of the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems.
APMS 2010 will take place in Cernobbio (Como Lake, Italy), 11-13 October 2010.
Some numbers about APMS2010:
· 1 Doctoral Workshop (9-10 October 2010),
· Special Sessions have been published
· 4 Projects have already joined the conference
· 2 keynote speakers have already confirmed their presentation:
ü Mr. Salvatore Paparelli, AV Sales & Operations Director, Sony Italy - The Sony’s Way to Sustainability: Product, Process, Planet: The Impact on Manufacturing, Operations, Products and Waste
ü Massimo Mattucci, COO Comau - Enviromental, Economical and Social Sustainability: Comau’s Business Evolution in Production Systems and Services
Important dates
· 15 April 2010 30 April 2010 Submission of Extended Abstract (min. 2.000 words)
· 15 May 2010 Notification of acceptance
· 1 July 2010 Final paper and registration fee due
· 9-10 October 2010 Doctoral Workshop
· 11-12-13 October 2010 APMS 2010 Conference
Conference topics
APMS 2010 will be dedicated to Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing, Products and Services. Papers will be blind peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the series called "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology" (IFIP AICT). Selected papers will be considered for development into journal papers for a special issue in Production Planning & Control.
According to this main theme, APMS 2010 calls for contributions in the following topics:
· Sustainable Manufacturing and Operations
o Industrial Engineering
o Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering
o Digital Production and Manufacturing
o Technology and Innovation Management
o Production Technology, Systems and Management
o Sustainable Factory Planning and Scheduling
o Advanced Manufacturing
o Lean Production
o Maintenance and Reliability
o Global and International Production Networks
o Green Supply Chain Management
o Green Manufacturing
o Production Quality and Standards
o Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing
o Resource Efficiency and Sustainability
o Zero Waste production
o End-of-Life Management
o Reuse, Remanufacture, Disassembly and Recycling Approaches and Techniques
o Reverse Logistics and Product Recovery
o ICT for Manufacturing and Logistics
· Sustainable Product
o Multidisciplinary Product Development
o Hybrid Products
o Innovation Clusters
o Virtual Engineering
o Social LCA, Methods and Tools
o Quantitative Sustainability Assessment
o Sustainable Business Models
o Eco-design and Eco-innovation
o End-of-Life strategies
o Design for Local and Global Consumers
o Smart Design for Sustainability
o Closed-loop Design and Closed-loop Economy
o Design Management
· Sustainable Services
o Service Engineering
o Service Management
o Integrated Product Service Policy
o Business Models for Services
o Service Strategy
o Service and Product Service Systems Engineering
o Service Innovation
o Design for Service
o Service Operations Management
o Service Chain
o Product Service Systems in the Business-to-Business Industry or in the Business-to-Consumer Industry
o Impact of ICT on Service Design, Service Processes and Management
o Product Service System Simulation
o Knowledge Management for Service
o Service Lifecycle Management
o After-Sales Services
o Public Sector
o Professional Services
o Healthcare Service
· Strategy for Sustainability
· KPI for Sustainability
For further information about Special Sessions, please visit this page: http://www.apms-conference.org/specialsessions.php. It is still possible to propose Special Sessions and project meetings.
Special Sessions
The following Special Sessions have been proposed and accepted.
1. Collaborative Innovation
2. Transformations to Servitized Organizational Forms
3. Sustainable Initiatives in Developing Countries
4. Product Service System Engineering - Theoretical and Empirical Evidences
5. Manufacturing and Plant Convergence Technology for Sustainable Manufacturing
6. Managing Operations in Servitised Organizations
7. Risk Management as a Powerful Means for Sustainability
8. Innovation Strategies for Service Industries - Implementing a Service Dominant Logic
9. New Product Introduction and Innovation in the 21st century - Methods, Tools and Techniques for new value proposition
10. Intelligent Non-Hierarchical Manufacturing Networks
11. Supply Risk Management - Theory, Models, and Experiences
Contacts
More details about the program, the registration, the venue and the accommodation are available at the conference web site www.apms-conference.org.
For any information, please contact info@apms-conference.org
For any comments, requests and proposals, please contact Prof. Marco Taisch, Conference Co-chair, marco.taisch@polimi.it, Tel: +39 02 2399 4815, Fax: +39 02 2399.3978
Prof. Marco Taisch
Politecnico di Milano
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
P.za L. da Vinci, 32 - 20133, Milano, Italy
ph: +39 02 2399.4815
secr.: +39 02 2399.2731
fax: +39 02 2399.3978
mob: +39 320 8393662
email: marco.taisch/at/polimi.it
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