Industry 4.0 is the term coined to name future industries: they are supposed to exploit the latest technological advances, such as Internet-of-Things, wireless sensor networks, big data, cloud computing, and so forth, to implement smart factories. The industries of the future are made up of cyber-physical systems that are expected to provide high flexibility and re-configurability spanning across the whole value chain. The aim is to enhance all the quality aspects of the production, from the delivered product to the impact on the environment. Given these promises, Industry 4.0 demands appropriate solutions to deal with additional needs in the design, production, and logistics, as well as in their coordination.

In this track, we seek novel contributions on the realization of Industry 4.0 quality goals, as well as case studies reporting on related experiences in that field.

Suggested topics of interest are, even if not restricted to, as follows:

• Quality requirements in the design, production, and/or logistics and their coordination for Industry 4.0;
• Methods for the verification&validation of quality in the design, production, and/or logistics and their coordination for Industry 4.0;
• Processes and engineering methodologies to enhance quality in Industry 4.0;
• Empirical studies on quality-related challenges and solutions for Industry 4.0.

Thematic Track Committee

Track Chairs:

• Antonio Cicchetti, Mälardalen University Sweden, Sweden
• Jan Broenink, University of Twente, Netherlands

Track PC Members:

• Matthias Tichy, Ulm University, Germany
• Tomasz Kornuta, IBM Research, Almaden, USA
• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
• Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Luca Berardinelli, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Tobias Bruckmann, University of Duisburg-Essen , Germany
• Stefan Biffl, Vienna University of Technology , Austria
• Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University Germany
• Martin Törngren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
• Bert Van Beek, Eindhoven University of Technology , Netherlands