Manufacturing Letters — An online, rapid-publication journal providing a home for short, high-quality papers from the international academic and industry community on important advances from all interdisciplinary research areas impacting manufacturing.

The journal promotes an exchange of ideas and communicates significant developments of immediate interest to others engaged in formative research that contributes to progress in manufacturing techniques, models, processes and systems.

Special Issue in Manufacturing Letters Journal: "Innovations in Manufacturing Education"

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Journal of Manufacturing Processes — Seeks to exchange current and future directions of manufacturing processes research, development and implementation, and to publish archival scholarly literature to advance the state-of-the-art in manufacturing processes and encourage innovation in new and efficient processes. The journal will also publish a research digest summarizing manufacturing process research from other research communities for rapid communication of new concepts. Special-topic issues on emerging technologies and invited papers will also be published.

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Journal of Manufacturing Systems — The Journal of Manufacturing Systems publishes state-of-the-art fundamental and applied research in manufacturing at systems level. Manufacturing systems are comprised of products, equipment, people, information, control and support functions for the economical and competitive development, to satisfy market and societal needs.

The aim of the Journal of Manufacturing Systems is to publish archival scholarly literature with the goal of advancing the state of the art in manufacturing systems and encouraging innovation in developing efficient, robust and sustainable manufacturing systems. Pertinent to the Journal is research that will impact emerging manufacturing systems from the equipment level to the extended enterprise. Challenges are addressed at the systems level within and across various scales including nano, micro and macro-scale manufacturing, as well as within and across broad sectors including aerospace, automotive, energy and medical device manufacturing.

The scope of the Journal of Manufacturing Systems includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Factory and production network design, process planning, assembly planning;
• Smart sensor networks, real-time monitoring, distributed system control;
• Human-machine interaction, human-robot collaborative assembly, operator ergonomics;
• Virtual and augmented reality in manufacturing;
• Artificial intelligence in manufacturing;
• Design and operation for sustainability, energy efficiency in production;
• Global and regional production networks, material handling, logistics;
• Mass customization and personalization, complexity management;
• Cyber-physical production systems, big data analytics and industrial Internet;
• Systems issues related to additive and subtractive manufacturing, micro-electromechanical systems.

Papers addressing related emerging topics are encouraged, and special-topic issues on emerging topics will be considered. Papers on manufacturing processes (additive, subtractive), modelling and simulation, shop-floor scheduling, diagnosis and prognosis, supply chain management, and resource optimization, will generally be considered out of scope, as there are other more appropriate journals in these areas.

The Journal of Manufacturing Systems is an official journal of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), in cooperation with the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME (NAMRI/SME).

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