Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems, 1st ed. 2021 IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2021, Nantes, France, September 5-9, 2021, Proceedings, Part III IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Vol. 632

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 techniques for 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.

Autonomous Robots in Delivery Logistics.- Sustainable Facility Location-Routing Problem for Blood Package Delivery by Drones with a Charging Station.- A MILP formulation for an Automated Guided Vehicle Scheduling Problem with battery constraints.- Planning autonomous material transportation in hospitals.- Collaborative hybrid delivery system: Drone routing problem assisted by truck.- Drone Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Multi-flight Level.- Digital Transformation Approaches in Production Management.- Multi-perspective view on sustainable production: A literature review.- Determining Minimal Cost of Action for Task Allocation Within Mobile Robot Swarm in Production Environments.- A hybrid architecture for the deployment of a Digitally-enhanced Quality Management (DQM) System for Zero-Defect Manufacturing in Industry 4.0.- The Survival Analysis for A Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing.- Detection of fluid level in bores for batch size one assembly automation using convolutional neuronal network.- Barriers hindering an efficient implementation process of digital technologies; a case study at Norwegian manufacturing companies.- Consistent Maintenance Order Processing with Digital Assistance Systems.- Supporting Manufacturing Processes Design Using Stakeholder Opinions and Sentiment Analysis.- Digitalization in Manufacturing: Trends, Drivers, Challenges, and Research Areas in Norway.- Exploring Accidental Digital Servitization In An Industrial Context.- Finance-Driven Supply Chain.- Financing and Cost sharing for a Supply Chain under CSR - sensitive demand.- Integrated Business Planning Process: Link between supply chain planning and financial planning.- An EOQ-based lot sizing model with working capital requirements financing cost.- Put option contracts in Newsvendor Model with bankruptcy risk.- Pricing Decisions for an Omnichannel Retailing under Service Level Considerations.- Gastronomic Service System Design.- Forecasting the Number of Customers Visiting Restaurants Using Machine Learning and Statistical Method.- Digital Ordering Improves Labor Productivity in Multiproduct Restaurants.- Geospatial Intelligence for Health and Productivity Management in Japanese Restaurants and Other Industries.- Engineering Large Event Catering Services.- A Study on Menu Planning Method Considering the Variation in Menu Orders - Application to daily foods in a company cafeteria.- Systems engineering analysis for cooking recipes from the perspective of work instructions.- Modern Scheduling and Applications in Industry 4.0.- Electric Bus Charging Scheduling Strategy with Stochastic Arrival Time and State of Charge.- Group scheduling and due date assignment without restriction on a single machine.- Parallel machine scheduling with stochastic workforce skill requirements.- Multitasking Scheduling Problem with Uncertain Credit Risk.- A mathematical model for bus scheduling with conditional signal priority.- Charging Scheduling Optimization of Battery Electric Bus with Controllable Task Completion.- Research on the O2O Takeout Orders Merger and Routing Optimization.- A MILP model for the scheduling of a multiproduct tree-structure pipeline network in mining industry.- Exploiting the full potential of I4.0 technologies for products EOL recovery process.- An Approximation Algorithm for the k-Connected Location Set Cover Problem with Color-spanning Constraint.- Recent Advances in Sustainable Manufacturing.- Sustainable Process Plan Generation in RMS: A Comparative Study of Two Multi-objective Evolutionary Approaches.- How is value created in the circular economy? Evidence from remanufacturing and repair businesses.- Modeling the Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem with Worker- and Position-Dependent Processing Times.- The most critical decisions in manufacturing: Implications for a Circular Economy.- Challenges in Setting up a Production Line during Pandemic.- Regular Session: Green Production and Circularity Concepts.- Developing a qualitative maturity scale for circularity in manufacturing.- Business Models in Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review.- Industry 4.0 Driven Quantitative Methods for Circular Supply Chains: A Bibliometric Analysis.- Rethinking Circular Business Models: The Role of the Learning Factory.- Crop selection and scheduling for green production with intercropping and rotation.- Regular Session: Improvement Models and Methods for Green and Innovative Systems.- Generation Y – Modularity Enabling Radical Innovation.- Disassembly Line Balancing using Recursive Optimization in presence of Task-Failure.- Quantity-flexibility contract models for the supply chain with green-sensitive demand in the automotive manufacturing industry.- How much green investments are efficient for a smart production system?.- DDMRP buffer positioning considering carbon emissions.- Regular Session: Supply Chain and Routing Management.- Reinforcement Learning for Layout Planning – Modelling the Layout Problem as MDP.- Supply chain management by blockchain.- Optimization of Hierarchical Production Planning with Setup Time Feasibility for Effective Supply Chain Management.- Integrated Planning of IoT-based Smart Bin Allocation and Vehicle Routing in Solid Waste Management.- Smart contracts implementation in the allocation of vaccines.- Regular Session: Robotics and Human Aspects.- Methods of Forecasting Environmental Stress and Strain on Working Humans in the Digital Factory.- Paraconsistent Annotated Evidential Logic Eτ Applied to Autonomous Robots in Logistic Center.- Human Aspects in Collaborative Order Picking– What if Robots learned how to Give Humansa Break?.- Human-robot collaboration in assembly operations/ Assembly system 4.0.- An Integrated QFD Approach for Industrial Robot Selection.- Regular Session: Classification and Data Management Methods.- Dissimilarity to class medoids as features for 3D point cloud classification.- A Comparative Study of Classification Methods on the States of the USA based on COVID-19 Indicators.- Maintenance data management for condition-based maintenance implementation.- A machine learning based health indicator construction in implementing predictive maintenance: A real world industrial application from manufacturing.- Development of Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for Detecting Dangerous Goods for X-ray Aviation Security in Artificial Intelligence.- Smart Supply Chain and Production in Society 5.0 Era.- Coalition Analysis on Two Manufactures and Two Retailers Supply Chain via Cooperative Game Theory.- Supply Chain Optimization through Cooperative Negotiation by Using Backward Scheduling.- A proposal of scheduling method based on decision criteria considering electric power costs and productivity.- A New Representation and Adaptive Feature Selection for Evolving Compact Dispatching Rules for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling with Genetic Programming.- A study on sharing logistics network design considering demand uncertainty.- Reshaping the Supply Chain for Society 5.0.- Supply Chain Risk Management Under Coronavirus.- A tabu search heuristic for the robust dynamic bayesian network optimisation problem under the supply chain ripple effect.- A new robust dynamic Bayesian network model with bounded deviation budget for disruption risk evaluation.- Stochastic integrated supplier selection and disruption risk assessment under ripple effect.- Pharmaceutical Supply Chain risk assessment in the time of COVID 19/ Case Study.