This year’s International Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Forum will be held May 17-19 in Cernobbio, Italy.

Global manufacturing companies, government research and development agencies and funding sources, leading university researchers and small- and medium-sized companies from around the world will be gathering to discuss the future prospects for collaboration and the next phase of the global Intelligent Manufacturing Systems program. The forum is the culminating event of the first 10-year phase of the IMS program, a large-scale, cost-sharing research and development initiative that involves industry, academia, research organizations and governments from Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

Attendees from around the world will discuss the technical results of IMS to date and investigate the potential for future manufacturing research, technology and applications. Sessions will be chaired by the leading minds in their respective fields and will include topics such as innovative design, quality management, modeling and simulation, virtual engineering, nanotechnology, unmanned factories, supply chain performance measures, services, lean manufacturing, education issues, intelligent devices, robots, process controls and fault detection, among others.

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