Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the Scientific Technical Committee: Life Cycle Engineering and Assembly (STC-A) had two virtual meetings in 2021: hosted in Paris on February 19 and hosted in Munich on August 28.
The February STC LCE/A meeting was attended by 70 people and the Munich meeting had 57 attendees.
CIRP conferences and sponsored conferences under STC LCE/A:
CIRP Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) conferences
• 28th LCE Conference, 2021, Jaipur, India (Profs. Sangwan and Herrmann)
• 29th LCE Conference, 2022, Leuven, Belgium (Profs. Dewulf and Duflou)
• 30th LCE Conference, 2023, New Jersey, USA (Prof. Guo and Dr. Helu)
• 31st LCE Conference, 2024, Torino (Profs. Settineri and Priarone)
• 32nd LCE Conference, 2025, Manchester (Prof. Mativenga)
CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems (CATS):
• 9th Conference on Assembly Technology and Systems, Flexible Assembly & Disassembly Systems, 2022, Leuven (Profs. Kellens and Demeester)
• 10th Conference on Assembly Technology and Systems, AI in Assembly, Modular Configurable Assembly Technology & Disassembly and Remanufacturing, 2024, Karlsruhe (Prof. Fleischer)
Sponsored conferences:
• 10th Conference on Through-life Engineering Services 2021 (online) (Drs. Martinetti/Kuipers)
• 18th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM) 2022 (Profs. Kohl and Seliger)
• 11th Conference on Through-life Engineering Services 2022 (Prof. Erkoyuncu)
STC A Keynote Papers
The 2021 STC-A keynote was Franke et al.: Electronics Module Assembly
Future keynote papers are:
• 2022 – Kara et al.: Closed Loop Systems to Circular Economy staying within the Planetary Boundaries
• 2023 – Makris et al.: Automated Assembly of Non-Rigid Objects
• 2024 – Sakao et al.: Implementing Circular Economy Activities in Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability
• 2025 – Wang et al.: Human-Centric Assembly in Smart Factories
Technical Presentations
Virtual Paris meeting (2021):
Due to the time limitations of the virtual Paris meeting no technical presentations took place.
Virtual GA Meeting – Munich (2021):
• Jürgen Fleischer: Smart battery maker: A new approach towards agile battery cell manufacturing
• George Michalos: Machine learning for monitoring safe physical contact in HRC applications
• Dimitris Mourtzis: Energy 4.0: A framework based on Artificial Intelligence for improving the resilience of Smart Grids
Other business
• No new business
Officers
The officers of STC LCE/A were:
Chair: Prof. Jörg Krüger
Vice-chair: Prof. Yasushi Umeda
Secretary: Prof. Lihui Wang
For further details on the activities of STC LCE/A please consult the minutes from the meetings in Paris.
Respectfully submitted by
Jörg Krüger / Yasushi Umeda / Lihui Wang