21-04-2023

Dear Colleagues, Extended Reality (XR), a term that encompasses virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, has the potential to revolutionize healthcare and medicine. From training healthcare professionals to enhancing patient care, XR can offer new ways to learn, diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate patients. As the technology continues to improve and become more accessible, the healthcare industry...

06-07-2022

Dear Colleagues, The rapid growth of advanced technologies and their massive introduction into industrial contexts is radically changing the approach to design and manufacturing. Modern Industry 5.0 technologies related to both Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Operational Technology (OT), such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Additive Manufacturing (AM), Digital Twin (DT),...

14-06-2022

Dear Colleagues, Product measurement, quality control and geometric inspection are very critical and labor-intensive stages in the industrial product life cycle and, as such, contribute significantly to the increase in manufacturing costs. The purpose of this special issue is to present new research advances on the applications of high-resolution 3D optical digitizers for the geometric product...

20-04-2022

Il comitato organizzatore della conferenza internazionale UX4VRehab (https://conference.prime-vr2.eu/) è lieto di invitare i Soci ADM a partecipare all'evento, che si terrà sia in presenza a Pisa il 13-14 Ottobre 2022, sia da remoto. La conferenza, organizzata nell'ambito del progetto Europeo Prime-VR2, ha come tema l'applicazione di tecniche di realtà virtuale per la...

11-03-2022

The first international Conference on Hybrid Societies is organized by the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center Hybrid Societies at Chemnitz University of Technology (CRC 1410 Hybrid Societies funded by the German Research Foundation), in which a highly interdisciplinary group of researchers from psychology and engineering sciences to mathematics and computer science to the social sciences...

18-10-2021

Dear Colleagues, In recent years, there has been a considerable development of sensors for three-dimensional acquisition in the biomedical field with the aim of both reducing the electromagnetic radiation to which the patient is subjected and improving their resolution and accuracy. This is opening up new scenarios for diagnostics, treatment planning, and follow-up procedures and studies....

11-09-2021

Dear Colleagues, In recent years, the manufacturing industry has experienced major changes as a result of growing trends towards automation, integration, and data exchange. The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0 as it is called) refers to all those methods that enable improvements in product design and manufacturing with the main objective of capturing, optimising, and deploying...

02-07-2021

Dear Colleagues, Research on metallic foams, and more generally on cellular materials, is currently focused on different fields, such as numerical modeling, testing, material design, and manufacturing. Metallic foam applications concern lightweight and crashworthiness design. Cellular materials are also studied for multifunctional components, bioengineering, and biomimetic design. These research...

15-03-2021

Dear Colleagues, Industry 4.0 (I4.0) topics are directly related to the concept of "Smart Factory", outlining a new vision in which the traditional factory evolves into a fully automated, digitized, flexible and connected system capable of learning and adapting to new scenarios. The rapid developments of modern I4.0 technologies related both to information technology (IT) and operational...

25-02-2021

Dear Colleagues, Metal powder net-shape and near net-shape technologies are increasingly interesting, as they allow producing parts as close as possible to their final shape, eliminating or reducing secondary operations, and consequently reducing scrap, costs, time to market, and environmental impact. Among them, Press and Sinter, Metal Injection Moulding, and, recently, Metal Additive...