TE2019 conference theme: “Transdisciplinary Engineering for Complex Socio-technical Systems”.

Industry and society are considered as complex socio-technical systems. They are facing various problems that can only be solved by collaboration between different disciplines. These disciplines need not only be technical, but should also be social-science disciplines. Moreover, collaboration between academia and practice is needed to develop acceptable solutions. Many engineering problems, in particular, require such an approach, that is called a Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE) approach.

The conference will focus on the emerging performance of the deployment of the new technology in complex systems context. Smart factory, big data, IoT, monitoring, simulation, cyber-physical systems, digital twins, connected industry, Industry 4.0, and Intelligent factory are keywords for the improvement of customer-orientation and productivity in industry. Additional keywords can be found in methods and cases of systemic impacts on existing systems and society. Authors are invited to contribute papers that address approaches to manage complexity in engineering problems. Mono-disciplinary papers can be accepted only when authors emphasize the context in which their approach is to be used as well as the collaboration between disciplines needed to make the approach work in practice.