Manufacturing is fundamental for job and wealth creation.

The line aims to research advanced manufacturing, operations, and logistics paradigms as ways to foster industry competitiveness. These paradigms include digitalization, sustainability, energy efficiency, lean, social & human-centricity.

Product life-cycle practices – including product-service systems approaches, operations excellence, quality and asset management methodologies, new distributed manufacturing models – are explored.

Finally, the research also addresses the new skills, competences and work organization practices in Industry 4.0 and 5.0.