1st International Symposium on Sustainable Product Design, Manufacturing, and Services (ISSPDMS 2015)



27 – 28 November 2015

Yilan County, Taiwan



Overview

With the trend of globalization, the competition within some industries is becoming increasingly fierce. To survive in the industry, every firm must strive to continually improve its competence in one way or another. For example, some firms do not have their own factories, so that they can focus on activities that are more profitable, while others continue expanding their manufacturing capacity to further drive down costs. Other common strategies include: outsourcing, blue ocean strategy, green and lean technologies, applying the competitiveness diamond model, developing next-generation technologies, forming alliances, etc.

In contrast, some studies have shown that even with considerable R&D capabilities, manufacturers cannot guarantee long-term competitiveness (i.e., sustainability). In addition, in the past, support from the government enabled the continued growth of manufacturers in some regions. After such support disappears, maintaining competitiveness and sustainability becomes a big problem. Further, the rise of the Chinese market, and of its manufacturers, bring opportunities and threats to existing firms.

This symposium is intended to provide details regarding sustainable development and competitive strategies, and their applications to product design, manufacturing, and services for researchers in product engineering, industrial engineering, marketing, and business administration, as well as practicing managers/engineers. This symposium features a balance between state-of-the-art research and more conventional reported applications. This symposium also provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to review and disseminate quality research work on competitive and sustainable product design, manufacturing, and services strategies and their applications, and to identify critical issues for further developments.

　


Publication Opportunities

Sustainability, Special Issue on "Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing in the Age of Globalization" (SCI/SSCI)

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Special Issue on "Ubiquitous Manufacturing" (SCI)

International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services (EI)

Algorithms (EI)

International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, Special Issue on "Cloud-based Simulation of Manufacturing Systems"

International Journal of Lean Enterprise Research




Topics

? affective design

? competitive and sustainable strategy: continuous measurable improvement

? competitive and sustainable strategy: statistical thinking

? competitive and sustainable strategy: constraint-focus

? competitive and sustainable strategy: people development/empowerment

? competitive and sustainable strategy: knowledge transfer

? competitive and sustainable strategy: differentiation

? competitive and sustainable strategy: partnering and collaboration through networking

? competitive and sustainable strategy: geographic reach

? the rise of China market and manufacturers - opportunities and threats

? human factors in manufacturing

? the role of government support

? foundry

? agile manufacturing, lean manufacturing

? cloud manufacturing, ubiquitous manufacturing

? energy-efficient manufacturing

? advanced manufacturing technologies

? design manufacturability, design into manufacturing, design-manufacturing integration

? competitiveness assessment and enhancement

? sustainable product design

? sustainable service

? sustainable logistics

? long-term competitiveness, sustainability

? remanufacturing, green manufacturing

? virtual factory, internet manufacturing and services

? benchmarking

? next-generation factory

? factory automation

? other related topics

　


Submission

Both extended abstract and full paper will be considered. Selected full papers, after extension and revision, will be recommended for possible journal publications.

Paper Template

　

Please submit your extended abstract or full paper to Prof. Chen via this email address

tolychen@gmail.com



Submissions will be peer-reviewed on a rolling basis.




Important Dates

Extended abstract submission: 15 September 2015

Review results for extended abstract: two weeks after submission

Final version of extended abstract: 30 September 2015



Full paper submission: 1 September 2015

Review results for full paper: four weeks after submission

Final version of full paper: 30 September 2015




Chairman

Prof. Dr. Tin-Chih Toly Chen
Department of Industrial Engineering and Systems Management

Feng Chia University

Taiwan
Website: http://tolychen.myweb.hinet.net/
E-Mail: tolychen@ms37.hinet.net




Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairman

Dr. Yu-Cheng Lin

Overseas Chinese University

E-Mail: charlesyclin@gmail.com



Secretariat

Dr. Ming- Hsuan Hsieh

Overseas Chinese University

E-mail: yclin@ocu.edu.tw



Program Chairmen

Prof. Dr. Ching-Torng Lin

Da-Yeh University

E-mail: charllin@dyu.edu.tw



Prof. Dr. Hsin-Chieh Wu

Chaoyang University of Technology

E-mail: hcwul@cyut.edu.tw



Promotion, Public Relationship, and Exhibition

Dr. Min-Chi Chiu

National Chin-Yi University of Technology

E-mail: mcchiu@ncut.edu.tw