Product Lifecycle Management. Green and Blue Technologies to Support Smart and Sustainable Organizations: 18th Ifip Wg 5.1 International Conference, P

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 639 and 640 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2021, held in Curitiba, Brazil, during July 11-14, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.

The 107 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Volume I:
Sustainability, sustainable development and circular economy
sustainability and information technologies and services
green and blue technologies
AI and blockchain integration with enterprise applications
PLM maturity, PLM implementation and adoption within industry 4.0
and industry 4.0 and emerging technologies:

Volume II:
Design, education and management
lean, design and innovation technologies
information technology models and design
and models, manufacturing and information technologies and services.