Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2021, Nantes, France, September 5–9, 2021, Proceedings, Part II

The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.*

The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial intelligence techniques, decision aid and new and renewed paradigms for sustainable and resilient production systems at four-wall factory and value chain levels. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I: artificial intelligence based optimization techniques for demand-driven manufacturing; hybrid approaches for production planning and scheduling; intelligent systems for manufacturing planning and control in the industry 4.0; learning and robust decision support systems for agile manufacturing environments; low-code and model-driven engineering for production system; meta-heuristics and optimization techniquesfor energy-oriented manufacturing systems; metaheuristics for production systems; modern analytics and new AI-based smart techniques for replenishment and production planning under uncertainty; system identification for manufacturing control applications; and the future of lean thinking and practice

Part II: digital transformation of SME manufacturers: the crucial role of standard; digital transformations towards supply chain resiliency; engineering of smart-product-service-systems of the future; lean and Six Sigma in services healthcare; new trends and challenges in reconfigurable, flexible or agile production system; production management in food supply chains; and sustainability in production planning and lot-sizing

Part III: autonomous robots in delivery logistics; digital transformation approaches in production management; finance-driven supply chain; gastronomic service system design; modern scheduling and applications in industry 4.0; recent advances in sustainable manufacturing; regular session: green production and circularity concepts; regular session: improvement models and methods for green and innovative systems; regular session: supply chain and routing management; regular session: robotics and human aspects; regular session: classification and data management methods; smart supply chain and production in society 5.0 era; and supply chain risk management under coronavirus

Part IV: AI for resilience in global supply chain networks in the context of pandemic disruptions; blockchain in the operations and supply chain management; data-based services as key enablers for smart products, manufacturing and assembly; data-driven methods for supply chain optimization; digital twins based on systems engineering and semantic modeling; digital twins in companies first developments and future challenges; human-centered artificial intelligence in smart manufacturing for the operator 4.0; operations management in engineer-to-order manufacturing; product and asset life cycle management for smart and sustainable manufacturing systems; robotics technologies for control, smart manufacturing and logistics; serious games analytics: improving games and learning support; smart and sustainable production and supply chains; smart methods and techniques for sustainable supply chain management; the new digital lean manufacturing paradigm; and the role of emerging technologies in disaster relief operations: lessons from COVID-19

Part V: data-driven platforms and applications in production and logistics: digital twins and AI for sustainability; regular session: new approaches for routing problem solving; regular session: improvement of design and operation of manufacturing systems; regular session: crossdock and transportation issues; regular session: maintenance improvement and lifecycle management; regular session: additive manufacturing and mass customization; regular session: frameworks and conceptual modelling for systems and services efficiency; regular session: optimization of production and transportation systems; regular session: optimization of supply chain agility and reconfigurability; regular session: advanced modelling approaches; regular session: simulation and optimization of systems performances; regular session: AI-based approaches for quality and performance improvement of production systems; and regular session: risk and performance management of supply chains

*The conference was held online.

Digital Transformation of SME Manufacturers: The Crucial Role of Standard.- Strategic roadmapping towards Industry 4.0 for manufacturing SMEs.- Developing Digital Supply Network’s Visibility Towards Transparency and Predictability.- Proposing a Gamified Solution for SMEs’ Use of Messaging Technology in Smart Manufacturing.- Lean first … then digitalize: a standard approach for Industry 4.0 implementation in SMEs.- Analyzing the Impact Level of SMEs features over Digital Transformation: A case study.- Digital Transformations Towards Supply Chain Resiliency.- Information Distortion in a Fast Fashion Supply Network: the impact of digitalization.- Smartwatch Integration in Digital Supply Chains.- Cash-flow Bullwhip Effect in the Semiconductor Industry: An Empirical Investigation.- Analytics with Stochastic Optimization: Experimental Results of Demand Uncertainty in a Process Industry.- Modelling critical success factors for the implementation of Industry 4.0 in Indian manufacturing MSMEs.- A Framework Integrating Internet of Things and Blockchain in Clinical Trials Reverse Supply Chain.- Smart Integration of Blockchain in Air Cargo Handling for Profit Maximization.- Requirements on Supply Chain Visibility: a case on inbound logistics.- Liner Ship Freight Revenue and Fleet Deployment for Single Service.- Digitization of Real-Time Predictive Maintenance for High Speed Machine Equipment.- Engineering of Smart-Product-Service-Systems of the Future.- Integrating Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis in the Overall Equipment Effectiveness framework to set a digital servitized machinery: an application case.- Transformation of Manufacturing Firms: Towards Digital Servitization.- Service Shop Performance Insights from ERP Data.- From Qualitative to Quantitative Data Valuation in Manufacturing Companies.- A methodology to build a framework for collaboration performance assessment in PSS delivery.- Digital servitisation and smart services for the newnormal.- Improving maintenance service delivery through data and skill-based task allocation.- Setting the Stage for Research on Aftermarket Production Systems in Operations Management.- Smart Landscaping Services.- The contracting of advanced services based on digitally-enabled product-service systems.- Lean and Six Sigma in Services Healthcare.- Lean Healthcare and Fast Track in Emergency - Systematic Integrative Review.- Information, Communication and Knowledge for Lean Healthcare Management Guidelines, A Literature Revision.- HFMEA-Fuzzy Model for Lean Waste Assessment in Health Care Units: Proposal and utilization cases.- Motivators to application of DMAIC in patient care processes.- Evaluation of Fast-Track Implementation on Emergency Department: A Literature Review.- An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Method to Plan Patient's Journey in Healthcare.- Capacity Management as a tool for improving infrastructure in the Lean Healthcare: a systematic review.- MDE-S: A Case Study of the Health Company Diagnostic Method Applied in Three Health Units.- Kaizen & Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis.- The benefits of deploying the Toyota kata.- An ACO algorithm for scheduling problem in health simulation center.- Proposed Method for Identifying Emergency Unit Profiles from the Monthly Service Number.- Lean Healthcare In Reducing HAI An Integrative Literature Review.- Karakuri: A proposal to waste reduction in Health Service-. Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling Problem during the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Lean Transformation in Healthcare: A French Case Study.- A Robust Home Health Care Scheduling and Routing Approach with Time Windows and Synchronization Constraints under Travel Time and Service Time Uncertainty.- Lean Healthcare Applied Systematically in The Basic Image Examination Process In A Medium-sized Medical Clinic.- Application of VSM for improving the medical processes - case study.- DMAIC: a proposed method to improve the cleaning and disinfection process in hospitals.- New Trends and Challenges in Reconfigurable, Flexible or Agile Production System.- Proposal of a methodology to improve the level of automation of an assembly line.- Scalability and Convertibility Models and Approaches for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Environments.- Changeable Manufacturing: A Comparative Study of Requirements and Potentials in Two Industrial Cases.- A Systematic Approach to Development of Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.- An Industry-Applicable Screening Tool for the Clarification of Changeability Requirements.- Impact of Different Financial Evaluation Parameters for Reconfigurable Manufacturing System Investments.- A hybrid architecture for a Reconfigurable Cellular Remanufacturing System.- Assembly line balancing with inexperienced and trainer workers.- FMS Scheduling Integration for Mass Customization.- Economic Design of Matrix-structured Manufacturing Systems.- Aggregate planning for multi-product assembly lines with reconfigurable cells.- Integrated Workforce Allocation and Scheduling in a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System Considering Cloud Manufacturing.- A bi-objective based measure for the scalability of reconfigurable manufacturing systems.- Digital twin framework for reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Challenges and Requirements.- Mathematical model for processing multiple parts on multi-positional reconfigurable machines with turrets.- Production Management in Food Supply Chains.- Food Exports from Brazil to the United Kingdom: An Exploratory Analysis of COVID-19 Impact on Trade.- Application of hybrid metaheuristic optimization algorithm (SAGAC) in beef cattle logistics.- Integrated Workforce Scheduling and Flexible Flow Shop Problem in the Meat Industry.- Optimization Strategies for In-Store Order Picking in Omnichannel Retailing.- Digital Twin application for the temperature and steam flow monitoring of a food pasteurization pilot plant.- Investigating the role of institutionalframeworks in food waste reduction at the retailer interface in the European Union.- Predicting Exports using Time Series and Regression Trend Lines: Brazil and Germany Competition in Green and Roasted Coffee Industry.- Scheduling of parallel print machines with sequence-dependent setup costs: A real-world case study.- Use of Paraconsistent Logic Evidential Annotated Et in Logistic Systems.- Selecting the Sustainable Fresh Food Surface Transport Array Using Analytic Hierarchy Process.- Sustainability in Production Planning and Lot-Sizing.- A partial nested decomposition approach forremanufacturing planning under uncertainty.- A Lot-Sizing Model for Maintenance Planning in a Circular Economy context.- An Integrated Single-Item Lot-Sizing Problem in a Two-Stage Industrial Symbiosis Supply Chain with Stochastic Demands.- Three-phase method for the capacitated lot-sizing problem with sequence dependent setups.- Optimization for lot-sizing problems under uncertainty: a data-driven perspective.