Procedia Manufacturing is an open access journal focusing entirely on publishing high quality conference proceedings. Procedia Manufacturing enables fast dissemination of its content so that conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on Sciverse ScienceDirect under the Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND. (For further details see our open access license policy.) Papers published on Procedia Manufacturing will be available online on ScienceDirect within 8 weeks of acceptance of the final manuscripts.

Procedia Manufacturing will publish papers from conferences on all important topics in the field of manufacturing engineering, including but not limited to manufacturing processes, systems and emerging topics in manufacturing, such as:

    Manufacturing process modeling
    Automation and robotics in manufacturing
    Sensing and control
    Manufacturing system design and operations
    Biomanufacturing
    Micro/nano manufacturing

Conference proceedings are accepted for publication in Procedia Manufacturing based on quality of the conference, its relevance to an international audience and timely and suitability of its scope. All proposals will be evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial board, who, during the evaluation process, may make contact with members of the conference scientific committee and keynote speakers to obtain further information about the conference.