The submission process for Special Sessions for the APMS 2016 conference on “PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD” has been completed. The scientific committee around Prof. Irenilza Nääs, the conference chairwoman, accepted a record number of 13 proposals for special sessions. These cover a diverse range of topics:

• Knowledge management in production systems
• Advances in Cleaner Production
• 3rd IFIP WG5.7 research workshop
• Sustainable production management – Which approaches work in practice?
• Enabling product service systems development and management through smart technologies
• Operations management in Engineer-to-Order manufacturing
• Lean manufacturing
• Cyber-physical (IIoT) technology deployments in Smart Manufacturing Systems, an SM & CPPS SIG workshop session
• Smart Manufacturing System Characterization, an SM & CPPS SIG workshop session
• Service-oriented Architecture for Smart Manufacturing System, an SM & CPPS SIG workshop session
• Implications of multi-stage manufacturing process chains on Smart Manufacturing, an SM & CPPS SIG workshop session
• Bottom-up Knowledge Base Development for Smart Manufacturing, an SM & CPPS SIG workshop session
• Socially sustainable manufacturing towards Industry 4.0

Submissions of full papers to APMS 2016 are still open until 30 March 2016. Please consider submitting papers to the special sessions above.

More information about APMS 2016 can be found at:
http://www.apms-conference.org/index.php

Details on the special sessions are directly available at:
http://www.apms-conference.org/specialsessions.php

For questions related to APMS 2016 contact the conference secretariat:
lyris.goncalves@mci-group.com