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, production, delivery and total lifecycle of products 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 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, scheduling;
Smart sensor networks, real-time monitoring, distributed system control;
Human-machine interaction, human-robot collaborative assembly, operator ergonomics;
Multi-physics modelling, simulation and optimisation, virtual and augmented reality in manufacturing;
Diagnosis and prognosis, predictive maintenance, lifecycle analysis, product-service systems;
Design and operation for sustainability, energy efficiency in production and logistics;
Global and regional production networks, material handling, logistics;
Mass customisation and personalisation, complexity management;
Cyber-physical production systems, big data analytics and machine learning, industrial Internet;
Systems issues related to additive and subtractive manufacturing, micro-electromechanical systems.

original technical papers

Editor-in-Chief
L. Wang
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Department of Production Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden Email L. Wang
Associate Editors
O. Battaia
Graduate School of Aeronautics and Space Science, France
A. Diabat
New York University - Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
M. Doolan
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
E. Frazzon
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
M. Freitag
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
J. Ko
Ajou University, Suwon, Korea, Republic of
B. Kulvatunyou
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
S. Kumar
University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
M. B. Kurz
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States
J. Liu
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
K. Salonitis
Cranfield University Environment and Agrifood, Bedford, United Kingdom
A. Syberfeldt
University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden
X. V. Wang
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Department of Production Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden
D. Wu
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States
S. Yang
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China
Editorial Board
S. Akpinar
Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey
B. Babic
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
R. Babiceanu
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
T. Becker
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
C. Chandra
University of Michigan Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Q. Chang
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
A. Giret
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
W. Guo
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
J. Heger
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Luneburg, Germany
W. Ji
AB Sandvik Coromant, Sandviken, Sweden
S. Lee
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States
A. Nassehi
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
A. Ng
University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden
J. L. Rickli
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
D. Roy
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
J. Sagawa
Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil
M.K. Thompson
GE Additive, West Chester, Ohio, United States
A. Valente
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Manno, Switzerland
K. Wang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
L. J. Wells
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
T. Wuest
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
H. Yang
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Emeritus Editors
J.T. Black
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States
J.G. Bollinger
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
N. Duffie
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
S.J. Hu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
V. Jorge Leon
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
R. Suri
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States