IISE Transactions 特刊征稿 | Digital Twin for the Advancement of Design and Manufacturing

Aims and Scope

Digital twin technologies are virtual representations of physical products, processes, and production systems that integrate sensor data. They are transforming design and manufacturing by enabling risk-free exploration, rapid digital prototyping, and life-cycle optimization, supporting simulation, modeling, analysis, and data-driven decision-making.

This Special Issue highlights research opportunities for digital twins across design and manufacturing operations. The scope spans process-level modeling and control in additive, subtractive, and hybrid manufacturing, as well as system-level topics such as product design, facility layout, production planning and scheduling, and smart manufacturing—grounded in digital-twin and physics-informed methods.

Relevant Topics (include, but are not limited to)

1. Modeling and Simulation of Manufacturing Processes and Systems

• • Multiphysics process modeling for additive, subtractive, and hybrid manufacturing
• • Digital-twin–based simulation of manufacturing systems
• • Example methods: physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), stochastic processes and queuing networks, simulation, surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification

2. Optimal Design, Planning, and Operation of Manufacturing Systems

• • Product and process design with digital twins; factory/facility layout
• • Production planning and scheduling; logistics and warehousing
• • Example methods: robust and stochastic optimization, model predictive control, reinforcement learning, network analysis, game theory

3. Data-driven Decision-making for Performance and Sustainability

• • Anomaly detection, diagnostics, and root-cause analysis
• • Energy and resource efficiency; life-cycle assessment
• • Example methods: machine learning, time-series analysis, Bayesian modeling, active learning

Special Issue Information

This Special Issue is sponsored by the Focus Issue of Design and Manufacturing.

Focus Issue Editor:
Dr. Zhenyu (James) Kong, Virginia Tech, USA

Special Issue Editors:

• • Dr. Chenang Liu, Oklahoma State University, USA
• • Dr. Michel-Alexandre Cardin, Imperial College London, UK
• • Dr. Jingshan Li, Tsinghua University, China
• • Dr. Debjit Roy, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India
• • Dr. Chenhui Shao, University of Michigan, USA

Submission Instructions

All manuscripts should be submitted through the IISE Transactions submission portal:
👉 http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iietransactions
Please select “Special Issue” under Manuscript Category. All manuscripts must comply with IISE Transactions publication guidelines.

Key Dates

• • Manuscript submission deadline: March 1, 2026
• • 1st round review completion: July 1, 2026
• • 2nd round review completion: November 1, 2026
• • Final manuscript submission: December 31, 2026
• • Tentative publication date: April 30, 2027

For more details, please visit the IISE Transactions website:https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/digital-twin-for-the-advancement-of-design-and-manufacturing/ or contact the Guest Editors.