The recent financial global crisis has accelerated the need for a
sustainable economic growth where smarter and greener economy could create
prosperity and new job from innovation and from using the natural resources
better than before.

In this global context, besides the role of the policy makers, companies
cannot postpone anymore the implementation of strategies to deal with an
increasing competition in a sustainable, green and environmental-conscious
and social-oriented market: strict regulations, consumers demand for greener
products, reduction of the carbon footprint, optimization of the usage of
natural resources, more societal attention and many other trends are
increasing the challenges to compete in a real global market. Companies are
therefore called to become more efficient, increase their productivity, use
less resources and non-renewable energy in an environment with high energy
prices, carbon constraints and greater resource competition.

These challenges require a deep rethinking of the role of Manufacturing with
the need for new approaches to Product, Service and Production Management:
from a cost-cutting to a multi-disciplinary knowledge-based eco-factory
model.

With this goal in mind, APMS2010 calls for new, innovative and original
scientific contributions which address practical and industrial-oriented
solutions where the above context is addressed.





APMS 2010 at a glance

Since several decades, APMS is one of the major events and the official
conference of the  <http://www.ifipwg57.polimi.it/> IFIP Working Group 5.7
on Advances in Production Management Systems.

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APMS 2010 will take place in Cernobbio (Como Lake, Italy), 11-13 October
2010. In addition to a scientific international conference, this event will
also feature:

·         a Doctoral Workshop (9-10 October 2010),

·         the opportunity to organize special sessions and project meetings
around the event , and

·         the place to meet experts from all over the world in Production
Management Systems, and listen to keynote speakers, like Mr. Massimo
Mattucci (COO Comau) and Mr. Salvatore Paparelli (Logistics and Sales
Director, Sony Italia).







Conference topics

APMS 2010 will be dedicated to Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing,
Products and Services. According to this main theme, APMS 2010 calls for
contributions in the following topics:

·         Sustainable Manufacturing and Operations

o   Industrial Engineering

o   Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering

o   Digital Production and Manufacturing

o   Technology and Innovation Management

o   Production Technology, Systems and Management

o   Sustainable Factory Planning and Scheduling

o   Advanced Manufacturing

o   Lean Production

o   Maintenance and Reliability

o   Global and International Production Networks

o   Green Supply Chain Management

o   Green Manufacturing

o   Production Quality and Standards

o   Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing

o   Resource Efficiency and Sustainability

o   Zero Waste production

o   End-of-Life Management

o   Reuse, Remanufacture, Disassembly and Recycling Approaches and
Techniques

o   Reverse Logistics and Product Recovery

o   ICT for Manufacturing and Logistics

·         Sustainable Product

o   Multidisciplinary Product Development

o   Hybrid Products

o   Innovation Clusters

o   Virtual Engineering

o   Social LCA, Methods and Tools

o   Quantitative Sustainability Assessment

o   Sustainable Business Models

o   Eco-design and Eco-innovation

o   End-of-Life strategies

o   Design for Local and Global Consumers

o   Smart Design for Sustainability

o   Closed-loop Design and Closed-loop Economy

o   Design Management

·         Sustainable Services

o   Service Engineering

o   Service Management

o   Integrated Product Service Policy

o   Business Models for Services

o   Service Strategy

o   Service and Product Service Systems Engineering

o   Service Innovation

o   Design for Service

o   Service Operations Management

o   Service Chain

o   Product Service Systems in the Business-to-Business Industry or in the
Business-to-Consumer Industry

o   Impact of ICT on Service Design, Service Processes and Management

o   Product Service System Simulation

o   Knowledge Management for Service

o   Service Lifecycle Management

o   After-Sales Services

o   Public Sector

o   Professional Services

o   Healthcare Service

·         Strategy for Sustainability

·         KPI for Sustainability



Papers will be blind peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in the
conference proceedings published by Springer in the series called "IFIP
Advances in Information and Communication Technology" (IFIP AICT). Selected
papers will be considered for development into journal papers for a special
issue in  <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09537287.asp> Production
Planning & Control.





Call for Special Session

Besides the submission of scientific and technical papers, APMS2010 allows
experts to organise a Special Session on forefront topics. The proposal for
a Special Sessions should be submitted before 15 February 2010. One
complimentary, regular conference registration will be offered for each
Special Session organised. For more information, refer to the
<http://www.apms-conference.org/specialsessions.php> Special Session page on
the web site.





Important dates

·         15 February 2010 Proposal for Special Session

·         15 April 2010 Submission of Extended Abstract (min. 2.000 words)

·         15 May 2010 Notification of acceptance

·         1 July 2010 Final paper and registration fee due

·         9-10 October 2010 Doctoral Workshop

·         11-12-13 October 2010 APMS 2010 Conference





International Committees

APMS 2010 is co-organized by Politecnico di Milano, University of Bergamo
and University of Florence.



Local Organising Committee

·         Marco Garetti, Politecnico di Milano

·         Marco Taisch, Politecnico di Milano

·         Alberto Portioli, Politecnico di Milano

·         Marco Macchi, Politecnico di Milano

·         Sergio Cavalieri, University of Bergamo

·         Mario Tucci, University of Florence

·         Sergio Terzi, University of Bergamo

·         Bartolomeo Cammarino, Politecnico di Milano

·         Alessandro Cannata, Politecnico di Milano

·         Endris Temam Kerga, Politecnico di Milano



International Programme Committee

·         Dimitris Kiritsis, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(Switzerland)

·         Asbjorn Rolstadas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(Norway)

·         Riitta Smeds, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)

·         Volker Stich, FIR - Aachen (Germany)

·         Shigeki Umeda, Musashi University (Japan)



International Scientific Committee

·         Bjørn Andersen, Sintef (Norway)

·         Abdelaziz Bouras, Université de Lyon (France)

·         Stephen J Childe, University of Exeter (UK)

·         Byoung K. Choi, KAIST (Korea)

·         Peter Falster, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)

·         Jan Frick Stavanger, University (Norway)

·         Robert W. Grubbstrom, Linköping Institute of Technology (Sweden)

·         Hibino Hironori, Technology Research Institute of JSPMI (Japan)

·         Hans-Henrik Hvolby, Aalborg University (Denmark)

·         Tomasz Koch Wroclaw, University of Technology (Poland)

·         Vidosav D. Majstorovich, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

·         Kai Mertins, Fraunhofer IPK (Germany)

·         Jan Olhager, Linköpings Universitet (Sweden)

·         Ioannis A. Pappas, National Technical University of Athens
(Greece)

·         Deng Shengchun, Harbin Institute of Technology (China)

·         Riitta Smeds, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)

·         Kathryn E. Stecke, University of Texas (USA)

·         Jan Ola Strandhagen, Sintef (Norway)

·         Mile Terziovski, University of Melbourne (Australia)

·         Klaus-D. Thoben, University of Bremen (Germany)

·         Jacques H. Trienekens, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)

·         David O' Sullivan, National University of Ireland (Ireland)





Contacts

More details about the program, the registration, the venue and the
accommodation are available at the conference web site
<http://www.apms-conference.org> www.apms-conference.org.

For any information, please contact  info@apms-conference.org>
info@apms-conference.org



For any comments, requests and proposals, please contact Prof. Marco Taisch,
Conference Co-chair,  marco.taisch@polimi.it>
marco.taisch@polimi.it, Tel: +39 02 2399 4815, Fax: +39 02 2399.3978







Prof. Marco Taisch

Politecnico di Milano

Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering

P.za L. da Vinci, 32 - 20133, Milano, Italy

ph: +39 02 2399.4815

secr.: +39 02 2399.2731

fax: +39 02 2399.3978

mob: +39 320 8393662

email: marco.taisch/at/polimi.it

skype: taisch.marco



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