IFAC TC 5.2. - Management and Control in Manufacturing and Logistics

Welcome Message from the Chair

The activities of the Technical Committee 5.2 "Management and Control in Manufacturing and Logistics" are devoted to promote the development of management decision-support systems in digital, resilient and sustainable manufacturing and supply chain systems in the era of Industry 4.0 based on combination of Industrial Engineering, OR and Data Science

Technical areas of interest in this committee include:
(a) Models of manufacturing tasks in production as well as assembly units, with the aim of designing architectures of workstations, cells and production lines, quality assurance and maintenance;
(b) Models of manufacturing management aiming at the design of procedures for process planning, production planning and control, job and activity scheduling, inventory control and logistics;

(c) Models of supply networks aiming at the design, planning and control of coordinated production-logistics systems;

(d) Modelling and management of sustainable and resilient manufacturing and human factors in manufacturing
(e) Models of Industry 4.0, cyber-physical systems, digital twins, Blockchain, cloud manufacturing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided, communication-based and Internet-based procedures and processes with the aim of accomplishing the functions listed in (a) - (d).

2018: 16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, IFAC INCOM 2018 (http://www.incom2018.org), Bergamo (Italy)

2019: 9th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, IFAC MIM 2019, Berlin, August 28-30,2019:  http://www.mim2019.com

2020: 21th IFAC World Congress (Virtual)

2021: 17th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, IFAC INCOM 2021, June 7-9 2021, Budapest (Hungary)

2022: 10th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, IFAC MIM 2022, Nantes, France

10th IFAC MIM 2022 - Final summary

10th IFAC MIM 2022 - Closing Ceremony and Publications

2023: 22th IFAC World Congress (Japan)

9 July – 14 July 2023

  www.ifac2023.org

Key Dates:
Sep. 15, 2022: Open Invited Track proposals
Oct. 15, 2022: Invited Session proposals
Oct. 31, 2022: Regular / Invited papers submission
Nov. 30, 2022: Tutorial / Workshop proposals
                        Discussion papers (Invited Sessions/ Open Invited Tracks)
Feb.  1, 2023: Discussion papers (Regular)
Feb. 21, 2023: Notification of acceptance
Mar. 31, 2023: Final paper submission