Purpose and Aim
The Swedish Production Academy welcomes you to join the 5th Swedish Production Symposium, SPS12. The aim of the conference is to promote both the breadth and depth in production research, and to bridge the gap between academic research and industrial implementation.
With this call we invite both academic and industrial researchers to contribute with interesting research results and to participate during the conference held.

Scope and topics
The scope of the conference is the challenges every manufacturing are meets in the globalized production system. The overall goal is to develop sustainable production systems manufacturing environmental friendly and safe products involving new technology and materials. Increased global competition is forcing the development towards shorter lead times, shorter time to get innovations on the market and increased flexibility. The purpose for the conference is to address these issues by discussing the following topics:
• Assembly
• Automation in production systems
• Humans in production systems
• Learning and organization in production systems
• Machine tool design
• Maintenance and reliability in production
• Man - Machine interaction in production
• Manufacturing processes
• Material processing
• Metrology in production
• Production engineering education
• Production system design
• Production systems operation
• Production performance
• Concurrent and collaborative engineering
• Remanufacturing and recycling
• Sustainable production system
• Virtual manufacturing & simulation