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Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).During the past decade, digital manufacturing science and technology have experienced very rapid development. These have not only provided industry with new methods, new tools and new digitalized products - which have transformed everything from design, materials processing to operational and management procedures - but are also changing the intercommunications, modes of thought and working environments of everybody in the manufacturing field. Digital manufacturing has brought remarkable and fundamental improvements to manufacturing industry and related research. The major topics covered are: (1) Global Manufacturing and Systems, (2) E-commerce Engineering, (3) Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing, (4) Modeling and Simulation of Workflow in Design and Manufacturing Processes, (5) Modeling and Simulation of Materials Processing, (6) Modeling and Integration of Enterprises, (7) Enterprise Resources Planning, (8) Manufacturing system, (9) Workshop Planning and Managements, (10) Knowledge Engineering Applications in Digital Enterprises, (11) Virtual Design and Virtual Manufacturing, (12) Numerical Control and Intelligent Control, (13) Quality Inspection and Control, (14) Logistics and Supply Chains, (15) Sustainable Manufacturing,(16) Digital Factory/Enterprise, and (17) Low Carbon Manufacturing and Systems.This book will be invaluable to production and development engineers, research students and academics working in these fields.