Aims and scope

Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is an international refereed journal published quarterly online open access by KMF. The journal to be of interest and use to all those concerned with research in various fields of, or closely related to, mechanical and industrial engineering disciplines. It aims to publish full research papers, review papers and short communications with focus on the fundamental and applied science, as well as innovative technologies advancing the knowledge in handling and manufacturing products on component, system and society level. The coverage of the journal includes all new theoretical and experimental findings in the fields of mechanical and industrial engineering or any closely related fields. The journal also encourages the submission of critical review articles covering advances in recent research of such fields as well as technical notes. The core interest of the journal is publishing articles that are either original physics-based investigations of processes and/or contributing technological novel ideas for increasing the efficiency and quality of processes by reducing simultaneously the environmental and social impact. A special field of interest of the journal are new methods of educating modern industrial and manufacturing engineers. Typical areas of interest to the journal include:
 Industrial engineering: Plant design, assembly, sustainable manufacturing, supply chain, human factors and (neuro-)ergonomics, life-cycle engineering, robotics and computer-integrated manufacturing systems
 Manufacturing: Additive manufacturing, casting, welding, polymer molding, forming and joining by forming, machining, electro-discharge manufacturing, precision engineering, smart manufacturing, virtual manufacturing, machine tools technology, laser technology, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, surfaces and their metrology
 Nano- and micro-technologies: Processing nanostructured material, fabrication of micro-systems and nanodevices
 Design: Tool design, press design, component design (including manufacturing effects), products performance as a function of manufacturing
 Modelling of materials processing: New analytical models, applying existing models to new processes, material characterisation, efficient numerical models, multi-scale models, modelling process chains
 Educational contributions: New in-situ experiments, telemetric experiments, augmented reality applications, complex knowledge description, misconceptions, curriculum development in industrial and manufacturing engineering, defining technical terms
 Workpiece and tool materials covered in the processes reach from metals, polymers, ceramics to biomaterials.

KMF Publication Ethics Statement

Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. KMF takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. KMF takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use latest software to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Law. The copyright is retained by the author(s). KMF will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

© 2020 by the authors; licensee KMF. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Law.

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