Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

Editorial

Published on 17 Dec 2025

Editorial: Editor’s challenge in digital manufacturing - digital transformation of manufacturing through industrial metaverse: opportunities and challenges for industry 5.0

in Digital Manufacturing

Dimitris Mourtzis

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1754316

118 views

Original Research

Accepted on 28 Nov 2025

Bayesian Experimental Design in Production Engineering: A Comprehensive Performance and Robustness Study

in Digital Manufacturing

Lars Leyendecker
Ana Maria Gonzalez Degetau
Katharina Bata
Jessica Emonts
Angela Schmitz
Robert Schmitt

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

143 views

Brief Research Report

Accepted on 18 Nov 2025

Smart Placement, Faster Robots – A Comparison of Algorithms for Robot Base-Pose Optimization

in Industrial Robotics and Automation

Matthias Mayer
Matthias Althoff

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

150 views

Original Research

Accepted on 31 Oct 2025

A development framework for human work integrated AI systems in manufacturing

in Digital Manufacturing

Yuji Yamamoto
Áranda Muñoz Álvaro
Kristian Sandström

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

304 views

Original Research

Published on 29 Oct 2025

WAAM-ViD: towards universal vision-based monitoring for wire arc additive manufacturing

in Additive Processes

Keun Woo Kim
Alexander Kamerkar
Tzu-En Chiu
Ibrahim Abdi
Jian Qin
Wojciech Suder
Seemal Asif

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1676365

1,558 views

Original Research

Published on 15 Oct 2025

Enhanced manufacturing quality of thermoplastic composites through infrared-assisted automated fiber placement

in Industrial Robotics and Automation

Chadurvedi Venkatesan
Muhammad Ridhwan
Faiz Zulkifli
Ujjaval Gupta
Arlindo Silva

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1649798

1,019 views
1 citation

Review

Published on 15 Aug 2025

A review of flexible robotic gripping systems

in Industrial Robotics and Automation

Bahadir Tarhan
Seemal Asif
Phil Webb
Marco Chacin

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1517727

6,866 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 14 Jul 2025

Extraction of exact symbolic stationary probability formulas for Markov chains with finite space with application to production lines. Part I: description of methodology

in Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering and Manufacturing

Konstantinos S. Boulas
Georgios D. Dounias
Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1439421

1,811 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 14 Jul 2025

Extraction of exact symbolic stationary probability formulas for Markov chains in finite space with application to production lines. part II: unveiling accurate formulas for very short serial production lines without buffers (three- and four-stations)

in Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering and Manufacturing

Konstantinos S. Boulas
Georgios D. Dounias
Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1439429

1,587 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 18 Jun 2025

Development of an end-to-end automated production concept for extrusion-based additive manufacturing of personalized medical scaffolds

in Additive Processes

Kai Janning
Sven König
Laura Herbst
Bastian Nießing
Robert H. Schmitt

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1572842

1,955 views
1 citation

Review

Published on 01 May 2025

Multifunctional inks in aerosol jet printing: performance, challenges, and applications

in Additive Processes

Rawan Elsersawy
Arafater Rahman
Chowdhury Sakib-Uz-Zaman
Mohammad Abu Hasan Khondoker

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1558209

4,818 views
9 citations

Editorial

Published on 29 Apr 2025

Editorial: Advances of finite element methods in the precision manufacturing processes

in Precision Engineering

Chitaranjan Pany
Dawood Desai
Wagner de Rossi

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1608699

3,287 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 25 Apr 2025

Overcoming digital transformation barriers: Chinese SMMEs in the sharing economy

in Digital Manufacturing

Ji Xiaosheng
Zhang Hua
Zhang Jin
Khalil AL-Bukhaiti
Anping Wan

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1495840

7,943 views
4 citations

Review

Published on 28 Feb 2025

Behavior at work: propositions for optimizing the human and organizational challenges of digital materials passports

in Digital Manufacturing

Vladislav Hristov Grozev
Carolyn Axtell
Hui Zhang
Karina Nielsen

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1511735

1,641 views

Review

Published on 07 Jan 2025

Toward sustainable industrialization in Africa: the potential of additive manufacturing – an overview

in Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering and Manufacturing

Desmond Klenam
Tabiri Asumadu
Michael Bodunrin
Japheth Obiko
Rodney Genga
Sechaba Maape
Fred McBagonluri
Wole Soboyejo

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1410653

36,302 views
3 citations

Original Research

Published on 15 Nov 2024

Influence of material orientation, loading angle, and single-shot repetition of laser shock peening on surface roughness properties

in Precision Engineering

Lebogang Lebea
Dawood Desai
Harry Ngwangwa
Fulufhelo Nemavhola

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1421589

1,542 views
3 citations

Original Research

Published on 15 Nov 2024

How can manufacturers identify the conditions for financially viable product-as-a-service?

in Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering and Manufacturing

Johan Vogt Duberg
Tomohiko Sakao

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1498189

2,884 views
8 citations

Original Research

Published on 31 Oct 2024

Investigating the efficiency of mixtures based on supercritical CO2 and lubricants by friction tests under conditions similar to the machining of Ti6Al4V

in Material Forming and Removal

Koffi Samuel Koulekpa
Chadi Benked-Dar
Hélène Elias-Birembaux
Frédéric Rossi
Gérard Poulachon

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1410292

1,882 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 28 Oct 2024

The golden batch-driven root cause analysis for anomalies in bioreactor fermentation process

in Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering and Manufacturing

Dennis Luo
Meiling He
Justice Darko
Fatime Ly Seymour
Francisco Maturana

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1392038

3,315 views

Original Research

Published on 25 Oct 2024

Modeling the interaction between powder particles and laser heat sources

in Precision Engineering

P. Baloyi
D. A. Desai
N. K. K. Arthur
S. L. Pityana

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1411971

1,648 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 25 Sep 2024

Forecasting models analysis for predictive maintenance

in Digital Manufacturing

Marco Belim
Tiago Meireles
Gil Gonçalves
Rui Pinto

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1475078

6,140 views
4 citations

Review

Published on 20 Aug 2024

Challenges and opportunities to advance manufacturing research for sustainable battery life cycles

in Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering and Manufacturing

Björn Johansson
Mélanie Despeisse
Jon Bokrantz
Greta Braun
Huizhong Cao
Arpita Chari
Qi Fang
Clarissa A. González Chávez
Anders Skoogh
Henrik Söderlund

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1360076

33,013 views
7 citations

Original Research

Published on 21 Mar 2024

Ecosystem integration: the use of ontologies in integrating knowledge across manufacturing value networks

in Digital Manufacturing

Michela Magas
Dimitris Kiritsis
María Poveda-Villalón
Lan Yang
Sten-Erik Björling
Andreas Rudenå

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1331197

4,197 views
2 citations

Original Research

Published on 21 Feb 2024

Anomaly detection in automated fibre placement: learning with data limitations

in Industrial Robotics and Automation

Assef Ghamisi
Todd Charter
Li Ji
Maxime Rivard
Gil Lund
Homayoun Najjaran

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2024.1277152

3,378 views
11 citations