Guest Editorial

摘要

International Conference on Innovative Design and Manufacturing (ICIDM) is the premium conference in design, manufacturing, and innovation. It was held at The University of Auckland in New Zealand in the beginning of 2016. The conference was created in 2011 by merging two leading conferences: The International Conferences on Manufacturing Automation (ICMA) and International Symposium on Digital Manufacturing (ISDM). In response to the call for papers, 220 papers were received on various aspects of design informatics, design theory and methodology, human centric design and manufacturing, product lifecycle management, virtual engineering and virtual manufacturing, additive manufacturing, cloud manufacturing, biomechanism and biomanufacturing, etc. All the papers were assessed by International Program Committee and 156 papers were accepted. Based on the quality of the papers, ten papers were selected and published in this special issue. The papers can be categorized into design optimization, rehabilitation robotics, advanced material, manufacturing engineering, and green supply chain management application.