Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1: Engineering design in a global manufacturing context
2: Concurrent, collaborative, and distributed engineering design and manufacture
3: Design tools, methods and techniques
4: Product life-cycle modeling and management
5: Computer-aided design and manufacturing
6: Quality, robust design, and variation management
7: Global Manufacturing and Systems
8: Product modeling and visualization techniques and advancement

9: Modeling and simulation of workflow in design and manufacturing processes

10: Virtual design and manufacturing technology
11: Advanced manufacturing processes
12: Enterprise resources planning
13: Digital factory/enterprise
14: Robotics and vision applications in robotics
15: Micro electrical mechanical systems
16: Cost control in product design
17: Activity based cost management

18: Precise detection technology

19: Others mechanism and computer science topics

20: Advanced material forming and processing technology

21: Design and application of advanced materials

22: New material