You’ll get eight peer-reviewed papers in this first special issue of Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems. State-of-the-art research in the key areas of smart manufacturing in the energy intensive process industries is presented, with topics that include:

– Natural gas-based hydrogen production utilizing hybrid energy resources
– Dynamic modeling and explicit control of a PEM water electrolysis process
– Stochastic programming approach versus estimator-based approach for sensor network design
– Data-based nonlinear model identification in economic model predictive control
– Proactive automation of a batch manufacturer in a smart grid environment
– Reliability of C-H-O symbiosis networks under source streams uncertainty
– Data-driven modeling and analysis of energy efficiency of geographically distributed manufacturing
– Manufacturing (IoTfM) enterprise software architecture