Advances in Manufacturing, Production Management and Process Control. Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced Production Management and Process Control, and Additive manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping, July 10-20, 2020, USA

Contemporary manufacturing enterprises aim at delivering a great number of consumer products and systems through friendly and satisfying working environments for people who are involved in manufacturing services. Human-centered design factors, which strongly affect manufacturing processes, as well as the potential end-users, are crucial for achieving continuous progress in this respect. They have been extensively discussed at the AHFE International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing and addressed in this book. Researchers around the world attempt to improve the quality of consumer products and working environments. The AHFE International Conference on Advanced Production Management and Process Control (APMPC) promotes the exchange of ideas and developments in production, sustainability, life cycle, innovation, development, fault diagnostics and control systems. It addresses a spectrum of theoretical and practical topics. This book also covers topics in additive manufacturing, modeling systems and 3D prototyping. Digital modeling systems are empowered systems of tangible and intangible tools that, using a large number of technologies such as ICTs, virtual environments, cloud computing, user interfaces, connected tools and hybrid systems, are used to conceive, model, analyze, virtualize, simulate and present solutions. Additive manufacturing (AM) refers to all production processes made with 3D printers, rapid prototyping systems, methods for remote fabrication, etc., which use raw materials to create three-dimensional objects; every day, fabricated solutions become pervasive in many environments, decreasing in costs and in time the entire manufacturing processes.