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Editorial

Special Issue “Digital and Sustainable Manufacturing in Industry 4.0”

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Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Industrial Design Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ronda de Valencia 3, 28012 Madrid, Spain
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Engineering Research Institute of Aragón–I3A, Universidad de Zaragoza, María de Luna 3, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstorvet Building 427A, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(20), 11384; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132011384
Submission received: 11 October 2023 / Accepted: 12 October 2023 / Published: 17 October 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital and Sustainable Manufacturing in Industry 4.0)
The evolution from current to future factories is supported by research contributions in many cross-disciplinary fields, where digitalization and sustainability perspectives are present. Industry 4.0 represents a common framework in accelerated development where those contributions meet to lay the foundation of the coming factories and manufacturing systems [1]. This Special Issue invites novel and high-quality research contributions in a wide range of technologies in addition to papers focusing on the design and operation of manufacturing systems contributing to this evolution. Topics of the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Lean manufacturing in product lifecycles framed within Industry 4.0 [2,3];
  • Digitally enabled manufacturing technologies for mass production [4];
  • Automation and process integration through collaborative robotics and sensors in production/assembly lines [5,6];
  • Flexible routing/scheduling of manufacturing systems for minimum resource use [7];
  • Automated quality assurance, traceability, and in-line metrology [8,9];
  • Twin green and digital transition technologies and applications [10];
  • Circular engineering in the product life cycle [11];
  • From lean to human-centered manufacturing science and innovation applications [12].
Manufacturing systems and their integration under triple-bottom-line sustainability criteria (economic, environmental, and social), as well as the research on individual isolated processes and technologies, fit the scope of this Special Issue. Links to factory job shops, including case studies presenting novel and relevant technical/scientific contributions, are welcome.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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