The IFAC MIM '2013 Conference is the next one in the series of IFAC events on Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control, earlier have being organized as workshops, with the previous one having held in Budapest, Hungary in 2007. The present event, MIM '2013 is thought as a new step in developing MIM's traditions, scopes, and aims. The IFAC MIM '2013 Conference is sponsored by IFAC 5.2 Technical Committee and co-sponsored by a number of IFAC committees as well as other scientific societies under the organizational support of the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a host organization, that is known as a leading Russian institution in the branch of control sciences and an organizer of many considerable scientific events, among which the very successful IFAC INCOM '09 Symposium takes a special and memorable place.

SCOPES
PLM and product design support systems
Virtual reality
Mass customization
Design and reconfiguration of manufacturing systems
Facility planning and materials handling
Inventory control, production planning and scheduling
Pricing and outsourcing
Supply chains and networks
Modeling, simulation, control and monitoring of manufacturing processes
Robotics in manufacturing
Probabilistic & statistical models in industrial plant control
Maintainability, reliability, safety and dependability of production systems
Monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance of manufacturing systems
Quality management
Process modeling and information systems within the extended enterprise
Architectures and models for intelligent manufacturing systems
Sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, active identifiers, wireless communication in manufacturing
Knowledge management in production
Distributed systems and multi-agents technologies
Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches
Complex adaptive systems and emergent synthesis in manufacturing
Discrete event systems in manufacturing
Simulation technologies
Operational research
Industrial and applied mathematics for production