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)
Sponsored conferences:
- 19th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM) 2023 (Profs. Kohl, Dietrich, Seliger & Mur)
- 12th Conference on Through-life Engineering Services 2024 (Prof. Erkoyuncu)
- 1st International Conference on Production Technologies and Systems for E-Mobility E|PTS 2024 (Prof. Franke)
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