Advances in Production Management Systems. Competitive Manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services [electronic resource] : IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2012, Rhodes, Greece, September 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part II / edited by Christos Emmanouilidis, Marco Taisch, Dimitris Kiritsis.

Emerging Technologies in Production and the Lifecycle Management of Products and Assets -- Enterprise Integration and Interoperability -- ICT for Manufacturing, Services and Production Management -- Product Lifecycle Management -- Asset Lifecycle Management -- Performance and Risk Management -- Services -- Managing International Operations -- Supply Networks and Supply Chain Management -- Production Management, Operations and Logistics.

The two volumes IFIP AICT 397 and 398 constitute the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2012, held in Rhodes, Greece, in September 2012. The 182 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the two volumes. They are organized in 6 parts: sustainability; design, manufacturing and production management; human factors, learning and innovation; ICT and emerging technologies in production management; product and asset lifecycle management; and services, supply chains and operations.