This conference is a bit on the sideline for the topic of this blog, but since I have promoted it both in 2009 and in 2010, and since I was on the scientific committee for both conferences, I think I should do so for 2011 also, particularly because it takes place on home turf. The 13th International Conference on The Modern Information Technology in the Innovation Processes of the Industrial Enterprises, or MITIP 2011 for short, will take place 22 June – 24 June 2011, in Trondheim, Norway. The main theme of this conference will be ICT enabled intelligent manufacturing and supply chains.
MITIP 2011
MITIP 2011 will concentrate on the dissemination of ideas, knowledge and experiences about ICT-driven innovation in intelligent manufacturing and supply chains. The conference is targeted to scholars and practitioners involved in research activities focusing on (but not limited to) the role of ICT in intelligent manufacturing and supply chain operations.
MITIP has proven to be an important forum for researchers from academia and industry to present the results of their work, inspiring a creative dialog among participants.
Maybe I should go this year, having missed it in both 2009 and 2010? Supply Chain Risk is not an explicit topic, but it could incorporated into the themes below.
Conference themes
MITIP 2011 envisions these “themes” as the conference topics:
- ICT for Manufacturing and Logistics
- Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
- Global Production and International Production Networks
- Lean Production
- Digital Factories and Virtual Organizations
- Production Technology, Systems and Management
- Technology and Innovation Management
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Product traceability and RFID
- Industrial Engineering
- Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering
- Maintenance and Reliability
- Green Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management
- Production Quality and Standards
- Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing
- Resource Efficiency and Sustainability
- Zero waste production
- End-of-life Management
- Reverse logistics
Venue
MITIP 2011 is organized by the Department of Production and Quality Engineering at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The point of contact for the conference is Professor Heidi Dreyer.
The Department of Production and Quality Engineering (IPK) works on the point of intersection between technology and management, with issues tied to operations, industrialization and production, along with quality and safety. The department has three primary divisions or research groups:
- Production Systems
- Production Management , and
- Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS)
The latter is perhaps where I could link up with supply chain risk, as RAMS is an acronym for Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety, with R also including Resilience and the S including both safety and security (Side note: oddly enough there are no separate words for safety and security in Norwegian, it’s the same word). The RAMS group contains some of Norway’s foremost academics in risk and reliability research.
Paper submission
The deadline for paper submission has not been announced yet. Please bookmark and see the MITIP 2011 website for more information. I will also update this post as soon as I receive news about it.
Conference website
- ntnu.no: MITIP 2011
