From Cleaner Production to Sustainable Smart Manufacturing

Abstract:

The seminar will cover several parts:

• A brief introduction of Prof. Liu’s serving university, his research team and ongoing projects
• The idea and reason for cleaner production
• Sustainable smart manufacturing: current reality and future prospects for cleaner production, especially highlighting the real world challenges and future research directions

Bio:

Yang Liu, M.Sc. (Tech.) in Telecommunications Engineering and D.Sc. (Tech.) in Industrial Management, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He currently works as a tenured Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the Department of Management and Engineering at Linköping University (Sweden), a part-time faculty in the Department of Production at University of Vaasa (Finland), and a Chair Professor at Jinan University (China). Meanwhile, he is appointed Adjunct/Visiting Professor in multiple other universities. He has published over 80 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He serves as an Editorial Board Member and Managing Guest Editor of the prestigious Journal of Cleaner Production (Impact Factor 2016: 5.715) as well as referee in over 20 SCI leading journals and external reviewer for NSERC of Canada. His publications have appeared in a number of distinguished journals, and some ranked as top 0.1% ESI Hot Papers and top 1% ESI Highly Cited Papers. His main research interests include smart manufacturing, product service innovation, decision support system, sustainable competitive advantage; control systems, autonomous robots, signal processing and pattern recognition.