The two volumes IFIP AICT 459 and 460 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International
IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems APMS 2015 held in Tokyo
Japan in September 2015. The 163 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from
185 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: collaborative networks
globalization and production management knowledge based production management project
management engineering management and quality management sustainability and production
management co-creating sustainable business processes and ecosystems open cloud computing
architecture for smart manufacturing and cyber physical production systems the practitioner's
view on innovative production management towards sustainable growth the role of additive
manufacturing in value chain reconfiguration and sustainability operations management in
engineer-to-order manufacturing lean production sustainable system design for green products
cloud-based manufacturing ontology-aided production - towards open and knowledge-driven
planning and control product-service lifecycle management: knowledge-driven innovation and
social implications and service engineering.
