Welcome

„George Emil Palade” University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mureș in collaboration with Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences is honoured to invite you to the International Conference Interdisciplinarity in Engineering - INTER-ENG 2024. The conference will be jointly organized and hosted at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of „George Emil Palade” University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mureș.

An effective digital-green transition for a more competitive European industry

The conference scope is to provide a professional and scientific forum for engineers and research scientists from universities, research centers and industry to present research works, contributions and recent developments as well as current practices in engineering.

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to the following major topics as they relate to the industrial and electrical engineering and industrial management:

• Post-pandemic and exceptional conditions manufacturing
• Advanced manufacturing technology
• Manufacturing process modeling
• Automation and robotics in manufacturing
• Sensing and control
• Manufacturing system design and operations
• Biomanufacturing
• Micro/nano manufacturing
• Lean manufacturing
• Additive manufacturing
• Non-conventional manufacturing process
• Manufacturing process control
• Sustainable manufacturing
• Digital transformation in manufacturing
• Advances in gear and transmission manufacturing
• CAD/CAM/CAE integrated systems
• Manufacturing tools and equipment
• Medical engineering
• Orthopedic biomechanics
• Education for sustainable manufacturing
• Lifelong learning for engineers
• Remanufacturing, reuse and recycling
• Value creation by sustainable manufacturing
• Quality control in manufacturing
• New and advanced materials
• Information systems technology
• Advanced software technology
• Intelligent systems and technologies
• Parallel and distributed computing technology
• Power and energy systems
• Optimization techniques

Manufacturing is severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been other major upheavals in recent history, such as the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the effects of which were felt for a period of several years until the manufacturing industry returned to pre-crisis levels. It is estimated that this time the crisis will be at least as severe as it was during the financial crisis, or maybe even worse.

But the current crisis has a different character from the previous crises with some negative aspects but also positive aspects. The negative fluctuations are manifested due to the shocks recorded in demand and supply, which led to periods of decrease or cessation of production and a recovery to different levels in different periods of time. In addition, China's manufacturing industry is increasingly affected, and malfunctions are on the rise. The positive part is that companies have higher equity, higher financial liquidity and the experience of the financial crisis, which helps them adapt to the current crisis.

The effects of the crisis are also variable depending on the sector. Where there were high production capacities still affected by the COVID-19 crisis, such as the machine tool industry, plastic injection molding machines, steel foundries, the effects of the crisis are felt more strongly because they are affected by declining investment restrictions in the automotive industry. On the other hand, the logistics sector is likely to experience mitigated effects of the crisis, and in any case less than during the financial crisis, due to the growth of e-commerce and the stimuli generated by government infrastructure.

Company managers are facing challenges, from moving from short-term work that no longer solves the situation generated by the decline in long-term demand, to other sustainable scenarios formulated in relation to the material and human structures they have and to avoid a massive drop in the company's profit.

Delays of manufacturing companies in adapting to the economic and technological aspects of the pandemic will lead to low competitiveness, with adverse effects for their future.