20 January 2008

Call for papers: Advanced Product Design and Manufacturing

Call for papers: Advanced Product Design and Manufacturing

A special issue of International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

With the advent of globalisation, manufacturing enterprises today are facing many challenges, ranging from product design to manufacturing. In response to increasing customer demand and dynamic competition, companies are under high pressure to shorten time-to-market by providing tailored products to customer for the economy of scope, and to reduce time-to-volume via mass production for the economy of scale. These requirements are driving technology needs to speed up product design and development, and to enhance manufacturing capability and capacity. Innovations in advanced product design and manufacturing have continued to expand and attract attention to address these challenges.

The goal of this special issue is to publish new ideas and the most recent developments in advanced product design and manufacturing. Selected papers from the International Conference on Product Design and Manufacturing Systems, 2007 (PDMS2007) will also be included in this issue. One of the main focuses of the conference is to provide the opportunity for scholars from all over the world to discuss their recent research advances in the area of product design and manufacturing.

However, the special issue is not limited to papers selected from the conference. It will accept submitted general papers on the topic, through the same general peer review processes.

The scope of the issue covers, but is not limited to:
  • Creativity and innovation in design and conceptual design methods
  • Concurrent/collaborative design and web-based design
  • Design for manufacturing and assembly
  • Knowledge-based systems in design
  • Mass customisation (MC)
  • Internet-based manufacturing
  • Agile manufacturing and lean production
  • Concurrent engineering
  • Modeling and evaluation of manufacturing system
Important dates
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 29 February 2008
Communication of peer reviews to authors: 31 May 2008
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 30 June 2008

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