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).
Ongoing major events:
2025: 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control – IFAC MIM2025
30 June - 03 July 2025, Trondheim, Norway
Past major events:
2024: 18th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2024)
28-30 August 2024, Vienna, Austria