Albert Shih, Editor-in-Chief

Albert Shih, Editor-in-Chief

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The objective of this Special Issue is to connect the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering (JMSE) and European manufacturing researchers through a collection of articles on high-level scientific work in manufacturing. It provides an opportunity for European researchers to present their state-of-the-art research results in manufacturing. In addition to the scientific aspect, the aim of this Special Issue is to bring together two of the world’s leading scientific communities. Indeed, although JMSE is an American journal, the European community needs to be shown in this historical and prestigious journal, and this rapprochement is one of the motivations behind this Special Issue. This Special Issue is also a good way of exchanging ideas between researchers in Europe and around the world.

A team of Guest Editors has been setup to collect as many interesting articles as possible. The team is led by Dr. Vincent Wagner (ENI de Tarbes, France) and consists of Professors Pedro Jose Arrazola (Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain), Yuebin Guo (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ), Knut Sorby (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Franci Pusavec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Andreas Klink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), and Michael Schmidt (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany).

The collection of articles is from Jan. 2023 to July 2023. In collaboration with the associate editors, each article underwent a rigorous peer review process, which is a hallmark of JMSE. The articles selected in this Special Issue are from France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Finland, England, Scotland, Belgium, Spain, Norway, and Turkey. We are delighted to see three inter-European collaborations and four global collaborations (Europe–USA and Europe–Asia).

Although this collection of articles is not exhaustive, it represents the state of advanced manufacturing research currently being carried out in Europe. A broad range of topics including additive manufacturing, machining, assembly/joining processes, robotics and cobotics, machine learning in manufacturing, and non-destructive testing is presented. These articles and the subjects they cover are a succinct overview of the knowledge acquired in Europe and of the topics addressed.

Vincent Wagner, Guest Editor

Vincent Wagner, Guest Editor

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This special issue is the beginning of a long and strong collaboration between JMSE and European researchers. In the past few months, we already have received enough new submissions from Europe for another JMSE European Special Section. This JMSE-Europe collaboration will continue.

The Editor-in-Chief would like to acknowledge Professors Kornel Ehmann and Yuebin Guo, who both provided this idea of engagement with Europe during the consultation process before he started as the editor in July 2022. We also want to acknowledge Emily Bosco, who provides continuous and timely editorial assistance.