STC A - 2023 Annual Report

The Scientific Technical Committee: Life Cycle Engineering and Assembly (STC A) had a Meeting held on February 23 in Paris and a meeting hosted in Dublin on August 25.

The February STC LCE/A meeting was attended by 82 people and the Dublin meeting had 72 attendees.

CIRP conferences and sponsored conferences under STC LCE/A:

CIRP Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) conferences

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)
33rd LCE Conference, 2026, Kamakura, Japan (Prof. Umeda)

CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems (CATS):

10th Conference on Assembly Technology and Systems, AI in Assembly, Modular Configurable Assembly Technology & Disassembly and Remanufacturing, 2024, Karlsruhe (Profs. Fleischer & Krüger)
11th Conference on Assembly Technology and Systems, 2026, Hong Kong (Profs. Zheng & Wang)

STC A Keynote Papers

The 2023 STC-A keynote was Makris et al.: Automated Assembly of Non-Rigid Objects

Future keynote papers are:

2024 – Sakao et al.: Implementing Circular Economy Activities in Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability
2025 – Wang et al.: Human-Centric Assembly in Smart Factories
2026 – Thiede et al.: Decarbonisation of Manufacturing towards Net Zero

Technical Presentations

Winter meeting (2023):

Christian Dworak: Challenges for implementing CE by a manufacturing firm – experiences of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (BSH)
Tomohiko Sakao and Yasushi Umeda: Academic state of the art (SoA) for implementing CE in manufacturing
S. Jawahir: Challenges and solutions for implementing circular economy in manufacturing industry
Jürgen Fleischer: Hybrid process chain for the additive-subtractive manufacturing of functionally integrated multi-material polymer parts.

The first three technical presentations were part of a moderated discussion on "Challenges and solutions for implementing circular economy in manufacturing industry”" (Moderator: Tomohiko Sakao).

GA Meeting – Dublin (2023)

Sotiris Makris: Augmented Reality and Digital Twin for Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction
Pai Zheng: Vision-Language Models Based Mutual Cognitive Human-Robot Collaborative Dis-/assembly
Nanya Li: Vision Aided Human-Robot Collaboration for Trajectory Planning of 3D Printing Process
Jürgen Fleischer: Adaptability and Flexibility through Industrial Robots and Process-Specific End Effectors in Disassembly Automation
Roham Sadeghi Tabar: A Quality and Process Control Digital Twin for Intelligent Disassembly
Nehika Mathur: Advancing a Manufacturing Circular Economy: An Overview of NIST's Efforts at Closing Product and Material Loops
Alessandro Simeone: Empowering Sustainability in Manufacturing through Upgraded Human-Centered Cyber Physical Systems

Other business

Essays for CIRP Novel Topics in Production Engineering:

Urgo et al.: AI-based Pose Estimation of Human Operators in Manufacturing Environments
Makris et al.: Seamless Human-Robot Collaboration in Industry

Proposal for a CIRP Novel Topic in Production Engineering (tbp in 2024):

Ansari et al.: Technical Language Processing in Manufacturing Applications

Officers

The officers of STC LCE/A until 08/2023 were:
Chair: Prof. Jörg Krüger
Vice-chair: Prof. Yasushi Umeda
Secretary: Prof. Lihui Wang

At the Dublin meeting the officers for the next three years period were elected:
Chair: Prof. Yasushi Umeda
Vice-chair: Prof. Lihui Wang
Secretary: Prof. Sebastian Thiede

For further details on the activities of STC LCE/A please consult the minutes from the winter meeting in Paris and the GA meeting in Dublin.

Respectfully submitted by
Jörg Krüger / Yasushi Umeda / Lihui Wang

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