PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit abstracts to register interest in the Conference, then original papers of up to 10 pages in length for review. Each paper (in English) will be reviewed by three members of the international Program Committee. Those that are accepted will be published, by a major publisher, in the Conference proceedings and may be considered for publication in the International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management. Industry presentations are also welcome which do not require full paper submission.
DEADLINES
- Call for papers (December 1st, 2020 or before)
- ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION (JANUARY 10TH, 2021) ONLINE SUBMISSION
- Notification for acceptance (February 10th, 2021)
- Paper Submission Deadline (March 10th, 2021)
- Notification for paper (May 15th, 2021)
- Registration Deadline (July 12th, 2021)
- Doctoral Workshop (July 11th, 2021)
- Conference Dates (July 12th-14th, 2021)
TOPICS
INNOVATION / DESIGN
- Collaboration and concurrent engineering
- Usability / user-centric approaches for PLM
- Computer aided x (CAD, CAE, CAM, CAP, CAx)
- Building information modeling
- Ergonomics
MANUFACTURING
- Conception and implementation processes
- Building lifecycle management
INDUSTRY 4.0
- Future of Industry
- Smart Factory
- Digital Twin
- Artificial Intelligence
- Internet of things (IoT, IIoT)
- Analytics
- Model Based Engineering System
- Digital transformation
- Digital/smart factory
- Digital ecosystems
- Cyber physical systems
- Augmented reality / virtual reality
- Simulation (physics and data driven)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SERVICES
- Infrastructure (SaaS, digital services, cloud-based services)
- End-to-end PLM and enterprise IT
- Product service systems
SUSTAINABILITY/GREEN & BLUE ECONOMY
- Green factory
- Green supply chain
- Sustainability Renewable
- Energy
- Circular Economy
- Corporate Social Responsibility – CSR
MODELS
- Maturity Models
- Metrics and maturity
- Product Development
- New Product Development
- Business Model
- Product Model
- Manufacturing Model
- Semantics and knowledge management
- Interoperability and security issues
- Asset lifecycle management
- Model based definition
- Model based systems engineering
- Engineering design models
- Models for manufacturing
EDUCATION & MANAGEMENT
- Education
- Management
- Best practices
- Emerging standards
- Education and training approaches
- Organizational and cultural change