Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing

Overview

Industry 4.0 is about using connected intelligence to usher in greater productivity, quality, flexibility, safety and resource utilisation across manufacturing enterprises, in which advanced manufacturing technologies such as Robotics or Additive Manufacturing play a critical role.

International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing, abbreviated as I-4AM (pronounced i-forum), is a biennial conference series, which intends to provide a platform to bring together all stakeholders in manufacturing and Industry 4.0, in particular those in academia and industry, in both India and abroad for them to deliberate on the nature, needs, challenges, opportunities, problems and solutions in this transformational area of endeavour. A specific focus of I-4AM is to provide a platform for exploring avenues for creating a vision of, and enablers for sustainable, affordable, and human-centric Industry 4.0, and to showcase cutting edge practice, research and educational innovation in this crucial and rapidly evolving area.

I-4AM 2026 is the fourth in a series of conferences held in India by the Department of Design and Manufacturing (DM) (https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/cpdm/index.php) during 08-09 January 2026. IISc is one of India's leading science and technology institutions and is one of the Institutes of Eminence decreed by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India (https://iisc.ac.in/). I-4AM 2026 is sponsored by the Smart Factory at IISc (https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/smartmanufacturing/), a Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC) under the Samarth Udyog Bharat 4.0 Programme (https://www.samarthudyog-i40.in/), Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India (https://heavyindustries.gov.in/).

The proceedings of I-4AM 2026 will be published as a book by Springer Nature that is indexed in Scopus and other databases.

The conference will have:

• Invited/keynote presentations from eminent international experts and practitioners;
• Presentations of refereed papers as podium presentations;
• Industrial sessions to present perspectives from industry and studies in practice;
• Panel discussions;
• Invited start-ups and Interactive session with entrepreneurs.

Please note that I-4AM 2026 is intended to be conducted entirely in-person, without any online or hybrid mode.

The I-4AM series was initiated in 2019 by the Department of Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, under its Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC) on I4.0India@IISc (Smart Factory) within the SAMARTH Udyog Bharat 4.0 programme of the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India.

I-4AM 2019 had 28 paper presentations with over 200 national and international participants. The conference had 12 keynotes and 5 panel discussions from thought leaders in the industry, academia, strategic sectors, and policy bodies, as well as podium sessions for research papers. More information on I-4AM 2019 can be found here: I-4AM 2019 website: https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/i4am19/ & I-4AM 2019 preface. The proceedings of I-4AM 2019 was published by Springer Nature, and can be accessed here: https://springer.com/gp/book/9789811556883

I-4AM 2022 (hosted online) had 41 paper presentations with more than 140 national and international participants. The conference had 8 academic keynotes, 2 industrial keynotes and 3 panel discussions. More information on I-4AM 2022 can be found here: I-4AM 2022 website: https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/i4am22/ & I-4AM 2022 preface. The proceedings of I-4AM 2022 was published by Springer Nature, and can be accessed here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0561-2

I-4AM 2024 had 62 paper presentations with 135 participants. The conference had 4 academic keynotes, 2 industrial keynotes, and 3 panel discussions. More information on I-4AM 2024 can be found here: I-4AM 2024 website: https://dm.iisc.ac.in/i4am24/

Full Paper Submission

• EasyChair tool will be opened for full paper submission from 15 April 2025 and the deadline to submit full papers is 31 May 2025
• Kindly consider the comments given on your abstract while writing the full paper.

In the existing EasyChair account

• Kindly review the author's information.
• The paper should be formatted in the template provided (Word template/ LaTeX template) and should be within 10 pages. Templates and detailed author guidelines about the Springer template can be found in the Conference tool. (Submission->View-> Add File-> submission templates).
• The maximum page limit is 10 formatted pages. If your paper extends beyond 10 formatted pages, you need to pay the extra charges for the publication.
• A maximum of 2 extra pages upon payment (including abstract and references) is allowed after the limit of 10 pages. The flat charge for extra pages (up to 2 pages) is as follows----->1. 50 USD for international authors ----> 2. 1500 INR for Indian & SAARC authors
• Submit your paper in PDF format only (Submission->View-> Add File).
• Kindly do not include author details in your full paper, as the papers are planned to be blind-reviewed. Please leave the author details section blank (i.e. 'as is' in the paper template).
• Before submitting your paper, kindly agree to the declaration checkbox. (Submission->View->Update information)
• Before submitting your paper, kindly declare conflict of interest if there are any. (Submission->View->Declare conflict)

• All papers will go through a double-blind review process and reviews will be available by 30th August 2025.
• Please note that all submitted papers will be evaluated by the International Programme Committee before a decision is taken.
• The paper should describe original research (i.e., not published elsewhere), and must be written in English. Major plagiarism issues (including self-plagiarism) will lead to desk rejection of the submitted paper.
• For each accepted paper, at least one author must register by paying the full registration fee and attend the conference in person to present the paper. Please note that I-4AM 2026 is intended to be conducted entirely in-person, without any option for online or hybrid mode.
• Some useful guidelines to prepare your manuscript can be found in 'How to Write a Paper' by Mike Ashby - http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmd/ashby-paper-V6.pdf  

Minimum eligibility for consideration of a full paper for I-4AM

The following are minimally needed for a full manuscript to be considered for review for I-4AM:
1. Acceptance of the abstract for I-4AM is only an approval for submission of full paper. It is not acceptance of the full paper. The manuscript for the full paper will be separately reviewed by an international programme committee before a decision on its acceptability is taken.
2. Before submission of the full paper, it should be formatted in Springer Nature format (the format template will be shared after abstract acceptance).
3. Each paper should be of at least 8 pages, and at most 12 pages in length in the above format.
4. Maximum page limit without paying additional page charges is 10 formatted pages.
5. With page charges the page limit is 12 formatted pages.
6. Each manuscript needs to have the following included in the paper (although not necessarily in the order in which these are mentioned below or explicitly in so many sections):

• Objectives, Research Questions/Hypotheses: What objectives did it fulfil, and/or what questions did it ask, and/or what hypotheses did it test (you need to have at least one of these addressed in your paper).
• Motivation, Background: Why was the above objective, research questions or hypotheses addressed? What high level impact would the work have?
• Research Approach, Methodology: How did you try to fulfil the objectives, answer the research questions, test your hypotheses? What steps did you take?
• Findings: By following your research approach, what did you find? What were the results obtained? Did these address your objectives/questions/hypotheses?
• Summary and Conclusions: Summary summarises what has been reported in the manuscript. Conclusions critique a, b, c and d above: How good were your answers? How good was the research methodology? Did/will these fulfil the motivations? What were the limitations? What aspects are still to be done?
• References: You need to cite and critically review at least 8 peer-reviewed work from archival journals/conferences/books/reports in your manuscript and reference these in your list of references.

7. I-4AM intends to publish original papers that report on the development of new knowledge of value to the academia and practice. In the full manuscript, therefore, you need to establish what is new that you report, and why this is important. You need to establish novelty and importance by reviewing earlier work published. Hence critical review of earlier literature in the area of the manuscript is essential to be included in the manuscript.
8. A manuscript that includes only ideas and opinions is not acceptable for I-4AM.
9. Since academic value is of prime interest in I-4AM, reporting on a commercial tool alone is not acceptable for I-4AM. Furthermore, in all papers, commercialism should be avoided.
10. Typical papers in I-4AM report one or more of the following:

• A study exploring the nature of Industry 4.0 or advanced manufacturing (at materials, components, machines or systems level), and/or how these are (currently) influenced by aspects of people, materials/energy, processes, organisation, knowledge, tools, economy and ecology. These are ‘as is’ studies – how I4.0 or advanced manufacturing works.
• A study exploring the development and evaluation of support (a material, part, subsystems, systems, guideline, tool, or any other recipe) for improving effectiveness or efficiency of I4.0 or manufacturing systems. These are ‘as should be’ studies – how I4.0 and/or manufacturing should be improved.
• A study on the development of a novel solution that fulfils a clear and unmet need, demonstrating use of various support (tools) in this process of development.

11. All papers are expected to be original contribution to knowledge. A plagiarism check will be run by the publishers and any paper having more than 20% overlap will be automatically rejected.
12. No paper should be generated using AI, such as LLMs. The publishers will run an AI check and will reject any such papers with substantial overlap with content generated by AI.
13. If any support is taken by the authors from AI for developing any part of the content of their paper, this should be clearly declared in the Acknowledgement section of the paper, specifying the parts of the content that were so developed. The programme committee of I-4AM’25 reserves the right to reject the paper if it deems the extent of support inappropriate and compromises the originality of the content of the paper.

Call for Abstracts

We invite you to submit abstracts addressing original research contributions to the topics listed below (review papers will not be accepted). All submitted abstracts will undergo a peer-review process conducted by an international program committee. Upon acceptance of the abstract, authors will be invited to submit their full papers for further review. All papers accepted for the conference and also cleared by the Springer Nature editorial team for adequacy of English and no plagiarism will be published in a proceedings book by Springer Nature and indexed in Scopus and other databases.

A Poster/flyer for I-4AM 2026 is available for download from this link (PDF format: color and black & white), (Image Format: color and black & white). Please feel free to download, print and display this poster in your department premises for a broader visibility of the conference.

Please note that I-4AM 2026 is intended to be conducted entirely in-person, without any online or hybrid mode.

Submission of papers is sought in all areas of Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing, including but not limited to the following topics:

Click on topic to know more:

Abstract Submission

Prospective authors should send an abstract of their paper (300 words) including paper title and author details, by uploading the abstract on the conference management tool: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=i4am2026, latest by 1st March 2025. Setting up through EasyChair, If you do not have an existing EasyChair account, please follow the instructions below:

1. Go to EasyChair
2. Click on “Create an account”
3. Enter the required information (i.e. first name, last name & email address)
4. You will receive an activation link to the email address provided
5. Click on the activation link and provide the required information (i.e. organization name, country, username & password)

Once you have an EasyChair account, do the following:

1. Go to EasyChair
2. Login into your account with your username and password
3. Enter as an author and submit the abstract

All abstracts will be checked for their novelty and relevance for I-4AM 2026; all papers relevant to the conference with novel content will be asked to submit a full paper for peer review

The authors will be notified of the acceptance decision of their abstract by 8th March 2025, which can be checked by the authors by logging into the conference management tool on the website.

Important Dates

Call for Abstracts	21 February 2025
Extended deadline for abstract submission	01 March 2025
Abstract Acceptance	08 March 2025
Full Paper Submission	31 May 2025
Paper Acceptance Decision	30 August 2025
Early Bird Registration	10 September 2025
Conference	08 - 09 January 2026

Advisory Committee*

Gurumoorthy, B	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (Chair)
Amrutur, Bharadwaj	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Bhattacharjee, Debashish	Tata Steel, India
Chandrasekhar, U	Wipro 3D, India
Das, Debabrata	International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore, India
Gnanamoorthy, R	Indian Institutes of Technology Madras, India
Goel, PS	National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India
Gopalakrishnan, Kris	Axilor Ventures, India
Gregory, Mike	University of Cambridge, UK
Jayaram, Vikram	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Jayaraman, Kishore	Rolls Royce, India
Joshi, Suhas S	Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay, India
Khargaonkar, Pramod	University of California, Irvine, USA
Majhi, Banshidhar	Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram, India
Mandanna, KM	Ashok Leyland, India
Nagahanumaiah	Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI), Bangalore, India
Narahari, Y	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Palanisamy, Suresh	Swinburne University, Australia
Pratap, Rudra	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Radhakrishnan, P	PSG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India
Ramakrishna, Seeram	National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rao, V Bhujanga	National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India
Reddy, Satheesh	Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India
Suresh, Subra	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tiwari, Manoj Kumar	National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), India
Yarlagadda, Prasad	Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Conference and Programme Chairs

Chakrabarti, Amaresh	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Suwas, Satyam	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Vice-Chair

Arora, Manish

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Co-Chairs*

Adams, Nico	Swinburne University, Australia
Babu, Ramesh	Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Bartolo, Paulo JDS	University of Manchester, UK
Frenz, Walter	RWTH Aachen, Germany
Gupta, Satyandra K	University of Southern California, USA
Jha, Sunil	Indian Institutes of Technology Delhi, India
Jolly, Mark	Cranfield University, UK
Kailas, Satish Vasu	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Karunakaran, KP	Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay, India
Minshall, Tim	University of Cambridge, UK
Morikawa, Hiroyuki	University of Tokyo, Japan
Pal, Surja Kanta	Indian Institutes of Technology Kharagpur, India
Rao, PVM	Indian Institutes of Technology Delhi, India
Ravi, B	Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay, India
Roy, Rajkumar	City University of London, UK
Schuh, Christopher A	MIT, USA
Sudarsan, Rachuri	Department of Energy, USA
Tandon, Puneet	Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India
Tewari, Asim	Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay, India

Programme Committee*

Agrawal, Anupam	Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Anbu, V	Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA), India
Bajpai, Vivek	Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India
Banerjee, Dipankar	Indian Institute of Science, India
Behera, Amar	University of Chester, UK
Bhatnagar, Shalabh	Indian Institute of Science, India
Biswas, Abhijit	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Biswas, Pradipta	Indian Institute of Science, India
Boby, Riby Abraham	Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
Bouras, Abdelaziz	Qatar University, Qatar
Chakradhar, Dupadu	Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad
Chatterjee, Kaushik	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Chinnam, Ratna Babu	Wayne State University, USA
Choudhury, Abhik	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Ciszak, Olaf	Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Das, Abhishek	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Date, Prashant P.	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
De, Amitava	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Desai, Kaushal A.	Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
Dixit, Pradeep	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Devadula, Sivasrinivasu	Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Dubey, Rameshwar	Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dwarakanath, Srinivasan	Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru
Dwivedi, Dheerendra Kumar	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
El-Khasawneh, Bashar	Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Ferreira, Joao Federal	University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
Frank, Alejandro Germán	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
G R, Jayanth	Indian Institute of Science, India
Ghosal, Ashitava	Indian Institute of Science, India
Ghose, Debasish	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Ghosh, Gourhari	Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
Gokhale, Amol A.	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Gopinath, Muvvala	Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Guha, Anirban	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Gururaja, Suhasini	Indian Institute of Science, India
Haapala, Karl R	Oregon State University, USA
Hiremath, Somashekhar S.	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Huang, Yiinlun	Wayne State University, USA
Immanuel, Jose R.	Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai
Jain, Neelesh Kumar	Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
Jain, Rahul	Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai
Jain, Vipul	Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Jha, Pradeep K	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Kandasamy, Jayakrishna	Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India
Kar, Amlan	Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India
Khatait, Jitendra P	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Kulkarni, Satyabodh	National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
Kumar, C S	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Kumar, Anand S	Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu
Kumar, Pradeep	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Kumara, Soundar	The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Kumaraguru, Senthilkumaran	Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, India
Law, Mohit	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Lee, Jay	University of Cincinnati, USA
Lingam, Rakesh	Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad
M. A. Somashekara	Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad
Madhusudanan, N	Corporate Technology, Siemens, India
Malshe, Ajay	Purdue University, USA
Mani, Monto	Indian Institute of Science, India
Meena, Kusum	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Mishra, Sushil	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Mittal R. K.	Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Mohan Santhakumar	Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad
Mohanty, Amiya	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Mote, Rakesh G.	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Mujumdar, Soham	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Mukhopadhyay, Prithviraj	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Mynors, Diane	Brunel University, UK
Nirala, Chandrakant K	Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Nomesh, Bolia	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Ong, S K	National University of Singapore, Singapore
Panda, Biranchi	Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Pande, Sanjay	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Pandya, Hardik J.	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Pathak, P.M.	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Prinz, Fritz	Stanford University, USA
R, Jose Immanuel	Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
R, Thiyagarajan	Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati
Rajkumar, V	Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu
Raman, Thulasi	Indian Institute of Science, India
Rassõlkin, Anton	Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Rehman, Fayyaz	Southampton Solent University, UK
Roy, Samir Chandra	Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
S. Aravindan	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
S. Suryakumar	Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
Sahu, Govind Narayan	Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati
Samuel, G L	Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Sangwan, Vivek	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Sankar, Mamilla Ravi	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Tirupati
Sarkar, Prabir	Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Sarkar, Sagar	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Sarmah, SP	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Saxena, Prateek	Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
Sen, Dibakar	Indian Institute of Science, India
Setti, Dinesh	Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad
Shafik, Mahmoud	University of Derby, UK
Sharma, Apurbba Kumar	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Sharma, Varun	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Shee, Himanshu	Victoria University, Australia
Shehab, Essam	Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Shrivastava, Amber	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Singh, Gurminder	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Singh, Harpreet	Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Singh, Ramesh Kumar	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Sinha, Purnendu	Group Innovation, Tata Sons
Srinivasan, Vijay	National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Subbu, S. Kanmani	Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad
Subramanian, Nachiappan	University of Sussex, UK
Suh, Suk-Hwan	Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Sutherland, John W	Purdue University, USA
Tao, Fei	Beihang University, China
Tomiyama, Tetsuo	International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo, Japan
U. Chandrasekhar	GMSIR Scientific Innovation and Research Centre, Bengaluru
Udai, Arun Dayal	Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India
Vashista, Meghanshu	Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
Vicharapu, Buchibabu	Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad
Vinodh, S	National Institute of Technology Trichy, India
Viswanathan, Koushik	Indian Institute of Science, India
Vyasarayani, Chandrika Prakash	Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Witherell, Paul-William	National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Yuan, Lang	University of South Carolina, USA

Local Organising Committee

Bhattacharya, Kaushik	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Ghadge, Kiran	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
K M, Raghavendra	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
K S, Puneeth	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
M, Sona	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Majumder, Anubhab	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Ranjeetha, Mary	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Salma, Nishath	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Singh, Sanjay	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Tripathi, Charu	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Upadhyay, Vivek	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Allam, Venu	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Venugopal, Vinay	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Yaldiz, Naz	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

* to be confirmed

Contact

For any inquiries, please contact us at:

Email: i4am.conf@iisc.ac.in

Phone: +91 80 2293 3136