- Smart, Cognitive and Digital Manufacturing Systems
- Flexible, Reconfigurable and Changeable Manufacturing Systems
- Product Variety Management, Families and Platforms Design and Configuration
- Design, Synthesis, Planning, and Simulation of Modular Manufacturing Systems
- Products and Systems Design, Scalability, Sustainability, Complexity and Evolution/Co-evolution,
- Systems Sustainability, Complexity, Circular Manufacturing and Innovation
- Mass Customization, Personalization and Design Verification/Physical Realization, Quality Verification
- Process Planning for Fabrication and Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)
- Robust and Cost-effective Design of Flexible and Reconfigurable Automotive Framing Systems