Advances in Smart, Resilient, Human-Centric, and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

The synergy of the new generation of information technologies, operation technologies, and advanced manufacturing technologies makes the manufacturing system need to move towards being smart, resilient, human-centric, and sustainable. While advances in information technologies, operation technologies, and manufacturing technologies have shown promising benefits for producing high-value-added products and services, there are still challenges to their integrations and implementations. It is urgent to make breakthroughs and innovations in the methods, technologies, and platforms for designing, configuration, and optimization of smart, resilient, human-centric, and sustainable manufacturing systems.

The purposes of this Research Topic are to present state-of-the-art research on design, (re)configuration, and optimization of smart, resilient, human-centric, and sustainable manufacturing systems, to demonstrate the benefits, and to anticipate the potential challenges.

The scope of this Research Topic covers all topics related to advances in smart, resilient, human-centric, and sustainable manufacturing systems including, but not limited to:

- Blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized applications in manufacturing systems

- Industrial artificial intelligence methods in manufacturing systems

- Digital twin methods and technologies in manufacturing systems

- Cognitive computing in manufacturing control and optimization

- Reconfigurable, flexible, and resilient manufacturing systems

- Knowledge automation in manufacturing systems

- Context-aware self-organizing manufacturing

- Decentralized autonomous manufacturing

- Human-centric smart manufacturing

- Human-robot collaboration

- Sustainable manufacturing

- Social manufacturing

- Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0

Keywords: Sustainable Manufacturing, smart manufacturing, Industry 5.0, human-centric manufacturing, resilient manufacturing, human-robot collaboration, Industry 4.0, digital twins, blockchain, decentralized autonomous manufacturing

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.