21st International Working Seminar on Production Economics

Theme

The purpose of this conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to meet, present and develop ideas on subjects within the field of Production Economics, which treats the interface between engineering and economics/management. The ultimate objective is to create and develop knowledge for improving industrial practice and to strengthen the methodological and theoretical base necessary for supporting sound decision making.

Nowadays, industry is facing the challenges of sustainable development, energy conservation, emerging markets, digital transformation of manufacturing including cloudcomputing, big dataanalytics, artificial intelligence, sharing economyandinternet of things, which are also in the central  focus  of investigation in  the  field  of  Production  Economics. In  this  conference,  the potential topics include but are not limited to:

•General production economics

•Production planningand control, hierarchical production planning

•Lean production and related production concepts

•Risk management, disasters and resilience

•Decision support systems

•Performance measurement

•Investment and financial planning

•Sustainable operations

•Industry 4.0/digital technology in manufacturing

•Humanitarian operations & logistics

•Closed loop supply chains

•Behavioural supply chain and operations management