[Iefac.list] 2nd Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Energy-Aware Manufacturing Operations” International Journal of Production Research

[Vittal Prabhu]

2nd Call for Papers
Special Issue on “Energy-Aware Manufacturing Operations”
International Journal of Production Research


Motivation – Today the industrial sector consumes a significant portion of the energy in the global economy; consequently, it has a significant impact through resource consumption on the environment and sustainability of our societies. However, over the last five decades energy productivity in manufacturing has not kept pace with the remarkable strides that have been made in improving labor and material productivity. Therefore, it is critical for researchers in academia, government and industry to make all aspects of manufacturing much more energy-efficient.
At present, and in the foreseeable future, there are significant opportunities to improve energy productivity in manufacturing by reducing energy waste, using better technologies and techniques for designing and operating factories. Energy productivity will become an important competitive dimension for manufacturing enterprises, which can be viewed as a natural evolution towards leaner, cleaner and greener systems. Moreover, customers will increase the demand for green products manufactured in a green manufacturing systems. Therefore, energy productivity needs to be characterized over wide time scales ranging from sub-second to multiple years through various metrics, physical measurements, empirical studies, analytical, and computational techniques.

Scope and Topics - The scope of this IJPR Special Issue on Energy-Aware Manufacturing Operations covers all aspects of energy on the manufacturing factory floor including, but not limited to, the following topics:

·         Economics of energy efficiency

·         Manufacturing operations control with dynamically varying energy prices

·         Characterization of energy productivity over multiple time-scales

·         Power and energy consumption measurement in manufacturing operations

·         Factory building energy consumption e.g. HVAC, lighting, and auxiliary services

·         Energy-aware methodologies for design and control of factories

·         Energy-aware Key Performance Indicators

·         Opportunistic energy management in manufacturing control

·         Analytical and simulation models for energy-aware manufacturing operations

·         Energy-aware scheduling

·         Experimental insights into energy consumption in manufacturing

·         Energy issues related to material processing, assembly, inspection, movement, and storage

·         Industrial case studies
Important Dates (tentative)
Original, full-paper, manuscript submission by authors: February 1, 2014
Reviews sent to authors: May 1, 2014
Revised manuscript submission by authors: August 1, 2014
Final revised manuscript submission to the publisher: October 1, 2014
Online publication: November 2014
Only high quality papers that require limited modifications will be accepted to meet the deadlines.

Submission procedure
Each manuscript will be refereed for publication by at least 2 reviewers. The length of the submitted article should be within 6,000 words including tables, references and appendices. Manuscripts must be prepared in the English language and should conform to International Journal of Production Research’s guidelines which are available at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tprs20&page=instructions
Papers should be submitted via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tprs
Please ensure that you select the special issue on “Energy Aware Manufacturing Operations” while submitting the manuscript.

Special Issue Editors
Vittal Prabhu, Penn State, USA
Damien Trentesaux, University of Valenciennes, France
Marco Taisch, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Short biography of guest editors

Vittal Prabhu is a Professor in the Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. He works in the area of distributed control systems with a focus on manufacturing and service enterprises. The goal of his research is to develop a unified mathematical and computational framework that enables engineering of distributed control systems consisting of discrete-events, physical processes, and service processes. He teaches courses in manufacturing systems, retail services, sustainable industrial enterprises, financial services, and distributed control systems. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of IJPR.

Damien Trentesaux is currently Full Professor at the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis, in France. His areas of interest include intelligent scheduling and control of discrete event systems (manufacturing, transport, logistics, and services) using multi-agent, bio-inspired and holonic models. Prof. Trentesaux has supervised 12 PhD theses and is author and co-author of more than 100 peer reviewed publications in journals, books, and chapters of books and conference proceedings. He is a member of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents and IFAC TC 5.1.

Marco Taisch is Full professor at the Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches the courses of Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems and Industrial Technologies. The team of Manufacturing Management and Engineering that he is leading counts around 30 researchers working in the field of operations and supply chain management, with a particular focus on design and management of manufacturing systems, Sustainable and Energy Efficient Manufacturing and Industrial Services, Product Lifecycle Management. The team took part in more than 20 international funded projects. He has published four books and more than 115 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He chairs since 2007 the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems. He is in the editorial board of Production Planning & Control. Currently he is member of the Industrial Research Advisory Group (IRAG) of EFRRA, the European Factory of the Future Research Association.


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Dr.Vittal Prabhu, Professor
Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Penn State University, 348 Leonhard Building University Park, PA 16802
Phone:(814) 863-3212, Fax:(814) 863-4745 Email:prabhu at engr.psu.edu<mailto:Email%3Aprabhu at engr.psu.edu>
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