Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control - 8th MIM 2016™

The general theme of the 8th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control is “Optimization and Systems Science for Risk Management and Disruption Recovery Control”. The conference will focus in particular on the most innovative methods proposed in the last few years in the context risk management, resilience, and disaster recovery control in the 21st century. Also other subjects will be considered, e.g. human and organization research, optimizations with specific society constraints, and new technologies impact on decision tools. The technical topics include, but are not limited to, the flowing:

Design and reconfiguration of manufacturing systems
Facility planning and materials handling
Inventory control, production planning and scheduling
Pricing and outsourcing
Supply chains and networks
Enterprise modelling, integration and networking
Information management for the Net-enterprise
Modeling, simulation, control and monitoring of manufacturing processes
Robotics in manufacturing
Smart manufacturing systems
Smart transportation
Service oriented architecture for production management and control
Knowledge management in production
Fostering innovation in manufacturing
Monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance of manufacturing systems
Complex adaptive systems and emergent synthesis in manufacturing
Web-enabled manufacturing control and wireless automation
Design for reusability
Maintainability, reliability, safety and dependability of production systems
Quality management
Virtual reality
Sensor networks, wireless communication in manufacturing
Distributed systems and multi-agents technologies
Discrete event systems in manufacturing
Simulation technologies
Operations Research
Probabilistic & statistical models in industrial plant control
Industrial and applied mathematics for production
Sensor network optimization