The Scientific Technical Committee: Life Cycle Engineering and Assembly (STC A) had a meeting held on February 22 in Paris and a meeting hosted in Thessaloniki on August 23.
The February STC LCE/A meeting was attended by 103 people and the Thessaloniki meeting had 81 attendees.
CIRP conferences and sponsored conferences under STC LCE/A:
CIRP Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) conferences
• 31st LCE Conference, 2024, Torino (Profs. Settineri and Priarone)
• 32nd LCE Conference, 2025, Manchester (Prof. Mativenga)
• 33rd LCE Conference, 2026, Kamakura, Japan (Prof. Umeda)
• 34th LCE Conference, 2027, Braunschweig, Germany (Prof. Herrmann)
• 35th LCE Conference, 2028, Linköping, Sweden (Prof. Sakao)
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:
• 1st International Conference on Production Technologies and Systems for E-Mobility E|PTS 2024 (Prof. Franke)
• 12th Conference on Through-life Engineering Services 2024 (Prof. Erkoyuncu)
• 19th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM) 2024 (Profs. Kohl, Dietrich, Seliger & Mur)
STC A Keynote Papers
The 2024 STC-A keynote was Sakao et al.: Implementing Circular Economy Activities in Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability
Future keynote papers are:
• 2025 – Wang et al.: Human-Centric Assembly in Smart Factories
• 2026 – Thiede et al.: Decarbonisation of Manufacturing towards Net Zero
• 2027 – Makris et al.: Humans, AI and robots for resilient assembly operations
Technical Presentations
Winter meeting (2024):
• Svenja Ehmsen: Environmental impact of high-speed laser directed energy deposition
• Angioletta Catalano: A model for process selection in hybrid manufacturing for minimizing environmental impact
• Barbara Linke: Life cycle energy and manufacturing leveraging with examples of friction and wear
• Christoph Herrmann: Towards life cycle engineering of factories
• Vidosav Majstorovic: Contribution to assessment of the engineering activities environmental impact in digital era
• Yingguang Li and Changqing Liu: Modelling and predicting residual stress fields of large structural components in different stages of life cycle based on deformation forces
• Jörg Krüger: Passive structured compliance in high-speed robotic assembly tasks utilizing the finray-effect and environmental compliance
• Sotiris Makris: Flexible workpiece handling for resilient assembly systems
The first five technical presentations were part of a moderated discussion on "Life cycle implications of manufacturing" (Moderator: Sebastian Thiede).
GA Meeting – Thessaloniki (2024)
• Robert Schmitt/Benjamin Montavon: Closing the lifecycle loop – assessment methods for industrial disassembly
• Shun Yang: Second life assessment based disassembly for battery modules
• Ippei Kono: Life Cycle Design and Product Regeneration Technology for Circular Economy
• Sebastian Schlund: Turning in Circles: Exploiting the Potential of Circular Economy in Wind Turbine Operations
• Matthias Weigold: Process transparency and optimization for parts drying processes
The first three technical presentations were part of a moderated discussion on " Assembly and Disassembly in context of sustainability”" (Moderator: Lihui Wang).
Other business
Essays for CIRP Novel Topics in Production Engineering:
Vol. 1
• Urgo et al.: AI-based Pose Estimation of Human Operators in Manufacturing Environments
• Makris et al.: Seamless Human-Robot Collaboration in Industry
Vol. 2
• Ansari et al.: Technical Language Processing in Manufacturing Applications
Proposal for a CIRP Novel Topic in Production Engineering:
• Bukkapatnam et al.: Safety and Production Quality Assurance in Human-Centric Collaborative Manufacturing and Assembly Systems
• Liu et al.: Generative AI for human-centric assembly
Officers
The officers of STC LCE/A until 08/2024 were:
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
Yasushi Umeda / Lihui Wang / Sebastian Thiede