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Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal - Call for Papers for Special Issue on Decision-Making Techniques for Smart Semiconductor Manufacturing

The Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is seeking submissions to a forthcoming Special Issue on Decision-Making Techniques for Smart Semiconductor Manufacturing.

The Industry 4.0 vision is a frequently discussed topic in manufacturing enterprises in Europe, Asia, and North America. It is expected that advanced technologies such as Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data technologies enable the emer-gence of smart manufacturing systems. A smart factory promises to bring transparency to manufacturing facilities by integrating technological advances in computer networks, data integration, and analytics. At the same time, critical questions are asked related to the benefits of Industry 4.0. It is mainly criticized that the requirements and consequences of Industry 4.0 regarding future production planning and control strategies are not fully understood or not even taken into account in the overall Industry 4.0 conception, i.e., many of key decision processes are not included.

The semiconductor industry is capital intensive. The manufacturing process is very complex due to reentrant flows in combination with very long cycle times and multiple sources of uncertainty. This industry is an extreme field for production planning and control solutions from algorithmic point of view, as well as from a software and information systems point of view. The degree of automation was always and is still high compared to other industries. On the one hand, one can argue that in wafer fabs elements of smart manufacturing are already realized, namely most of manufacturing information is available in real-time, the manufacturing process is paperless, lots can be uniquely identified and located, and collaborative human-machine interaction exists. On the other hand, there are significant differences in automation efforts related to manual work-intensive industries such as automotive or aircraft manufac-turing where assembly operations are performed in flow lines. In addition to shop-floor control concerns, supply chain management problems have become more and more important which necessitate a horizontal integration of the semiconductor supply chain and digital transformation for the industry ecosystem.

Guest Editors:
Prof. Lars Mönch
Chair of Enterprise-Wide Software Systems
University of Hagen
Germany
Email: Lars.Moench@fernuni-hagen.de (this opens in a new tab)

Hans Ehm
Infineon Technologies AG
Principal Supply Chain
Head of Supply Chain Innovations
SCC Chapter Lead Europe
Email: hans.ehm@infineon.com (this opens in a new tab)

John W. Fowler
Department of Supply Chain Management
Motorola Professor and Chair
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287  USA
E-mail: john.fowler@asu.edu (this opens in a new tab)

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