IT in Production and Logistics
A special issue of Computers (ISSN 2073-431X). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1684
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer simulation; logistics assistance systems; industrial IT systems; business processes; intralogistics; supply chains; urban last-mile delivery; data farming and data analysis
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Interests: logistics; supply chains; knowledge discovery in databases; data mining; data preprocessing; discrete event simulation; big data; information representation
Interests: digitalization; process simulation; robotics; additive and subtractive manufacturing; CAD; CAM; algorithmic optimization
Interests: new technologies and simulation including high-performance computing; digital twins and AI; simulation in international development; open science in simulation; production & logistics applications of simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The importance of IT in the design and implementation of industrial systems is continuously increasing, and some systems for innovative products or processes already have a higher value content in IT than in hardware like machines and other equipment. Software development tasks are ubiquitous in enterprises, but still most IT projects do not achieve the positive aspects that have been promised when deciding their budgets, and much worse, a significant part of these projects actually fail and are cancelled or result in software systems that are never productively used. Therefore, it is mandatory for engineers to understand the chances but also the challenges and risks of the many IT technologies that are available today. This Special Issue is calling for contributions on applications of up-to-date technologies, discussing their preconditions, their pros and cons, procedure models for the application of these new technologies and any further aspects that can support readers in successfully applying these technologies in their enterprises as well as furthering cutting-edge research.
We invite papers covering the following aspects of Information Technology applied to production and logistics, among other relevant topics:
- IT for production logistics;
- IT for intralogistics systems;
- Supply chain management;
- IT for freight management, roads/ ports/ air cargo;
- IT for mobility and urban logistics;
- Modeling of business processes and process mining;
- Material flow simulation and data farming;
- Digital factory and digital twin;
- Auto-ID technology and applications, Internet of Things;
- Design of industrial IT systems, industrial software engineering;
- Innovative databases for monitoring and control;
- Data mining and data modeling;
- Input data management and data quality for industrial applications;
- Advanced industrial AI applications;
- Industrial web applications.
Prof. Dr. Markus Rabe
Dr. Anne Antonia Scheidler
Prof. Dr. Marc Stautner
Prof. Dr. Simon J. E. Taylor
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- production
- logistics
- business processes
- industrial IT systems
- material flow simulation
- industrial web applications
- data modeling and data quality
- innovative databases
- process mining
- industrial software development
- Internet of Things
- data mining
- auto ID applications
- digital twin
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