As manufacturing organizations grapple with the imperative to foster sustainability, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles can be used as a guiding framework. This book seeks to explore the intersection of ESG and manufacturing technology.

This book covers computer-integrated equipment manufacturing, which allows high levels of adaptability and rapid equipment design changes to enable smart manufacturing processes. Benefits of the integration of lean manufacturing, smart sensors, 5G technology, IoTs, virtual reality, 3D printing, robotics and automation, are discussed.

This edited book covers challenges, concepts, systems, architectures, technologies, and design characteristics of human-machine cooperation and interaction systems in smart manufacturing environments using state of the art technologies including artificial intelligence, 5G, IoTs, Blockchains, CPS, sensing, automation and robotics.