This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Sustainable Technologies (ICAST 2020), organized by Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. This book caters to the industrial and production engineering aspects. It covers the industrial and production engineering areas such as sustainable manufacturing systems, decision sciences, supply chain management, Just in Time (JIT), logistics and supply chain management, rapid prototyping and reverse engineering, quality control and reliability, six sigma, smart manufacturing, time and motion study, six sigma, ergonomics, operations management, manufacturing management, metrology, manufacturing process optimization, machining and machine tools, casting, welding, and forming. This book will be useful for industry professionals and researchers working in the area of mechanical engineering, especially industrial and production engineering.

To meet and adapt to the current and future trends and issues in technology and society, the science committee of The German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP) continues to define future topics for production technology. These themes represent not only the key focus for the scientific work of the WGP, but also the central themes of the first annual conference in June 2011, whose paper is publically available in this volume. Such themes, including electric mobility, medical technology, lightweight construction, and resource efficiency, as well as mass production ability have all been identified as future, large-scale, and long-term drivers of change. Future trends influence changes sustainably and fundamentally; they permeate society, technology, economics, and value systems and have an effect in virtually all areas of life. The WGP has, as part of its research, established for itself the goal of not only observing these emerging changes, but also of supervising and influencing their development in order to ensure steady progress, secure sustainability, and shape the future.

"This new volume, Modern Manufacturing Systems: Trends and Developments, explores recent research on advanced technologies and methods in production engineering and its allied technologies, emphasizing effective overall process control and enhanced optimization. The authors include real-life case studies on advanced machining methods, traditional manufacturing technologies, advanced and composite materials, processing with hybrid manufacturing techniques, various joining processes and their applications, micro-structure analysis, and more. The book is divided into parts that discuss studies on conventional manufacturing practices, that examine studies on advanced/matrix composite materials, that present case studies on welding/joining processes, and that highlight studies on advanced/hybrid machining solutions. The authors address the current competitive structure of industrial advancements along with advanced machining processes that are now well proven and commercialized for fruitful processing of technically advanced materials as compared to traditional machining solutions. The chapters investigate methods of optimization under the given cutting conditions and with work material properties to attain the desired characteristics within the required ranges, which ultimately helps to provide quality products to end-customers. The evolutionary algorithms and their performance discussed and explained as well. This volume will keep readers abreast of current and latest research and advances in the competitive area of core production engineering and its allied technologies"--

Dynamic economics, technological changes, increasing pressure from competition and customers to improve manufacturing and services are some of the major challenges to enterprises these days. New ways of improving organizational activities and management processes have to be created, in order to allow enterprises to manage the seemingly intensifying competitive markets successfully. Enterprises apply business optimizing solutions to meet new challenges and conditions. But also ensuring effective development for long-term competitiveness in a global environment. This is necessary for the application of qualitative changes in the industrial policy. “New Trends in Process Control and Production Management” (MTS 2017) is the collection of research papers from authors from seven countries around the world. They present case studies and empirical research which illustrates the progressive trends in business process management and the drive to achieve enterprise development and sustainability.