INFORMATION

The conference SPS2026 calls for scientific contributions. The corresponding papers will be peer-reviewed, published in proceedings and presented during the conference. Please follow the below timeline, for submission of the abstract and, if accepted, of a corresponding manuscript. The scientific submission procedure will be carried out in the EasyChair portal system. The papers will be published in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, publisher IOP, which will be electronically available as open access. The conference language is English.

• Abstract submission opens: 2025-05-01
• Deadline abstract submission: original: 2025-08-22, extended to 2025-09-05
• Information about the decision of acceptance: 2025-09-01; late abstract submissions will receive the decision information until 2025-09-12 latest.”
• Manuscript submission opens: 2025-09-01
• Deadline full manuscript submission: 2025-10-15, extended to 2025-10-29
• Notification of full paper review results: 2025-11-30
• Final paper submission: 2026-01-23

SPS2026 overall theme:

Leading the transformation towards net zero industry

Topics:

• Product and production development for circularity
• Circular and sustainable manufacturing
• Resilience and dual-use in manufacturing
• Industrial and societal symbiosis
• Digital transformation and digital twins
• Robots and agents for product development and production
• Human-centered manufacturing
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in manufacturing
• Advanced manufacturing processes
• Education and upskilling

Authors from academia, industry, and research institutes are invited to submit an abstract in the SPS'2026 Conference Management System, EasyChair, before September 5^th, 2025 (note: extended deadline).
The abstract should include no author names, no author affiliations, and as little as possible any other indications on the origins of the authors, in figures, text or references.

To register an author account and submit an abstract, please use the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sps2026

Please structure the abstract using these headings:
- Title (preliminary)
- Keywords (3-5)
- Topic(s) (select one from the below-listed topics)
- Abstract (150-600 words). The abstract should give an outline of the final paper, indicating the paper’s merits and relevance to the symposium scope, a brief account of the results and the conclusions.

Notification of acceptance will be sent at the latest on September 1^st, 2025 (for late abstracts until September 12^th, 2025).

After acceptance of your abstract, please submit your manuscript, again in the Conference Management System EasyChair. You need to strictly follow the guidelines for authors for SPS 2026, which can be downloaded here.
Note that because of a change of the publisher by year-shift, the guidelines have changed. In particular, a template needs to be applied and the document is submitted as camera-ready .pdf-manuscript, according to the updated guidelines. You also need to sign an author declaration form, which can be downloaded here.

Your manuscript will be peer-reviewed and you will receive corresponding comments. The final paper should be 6-12 pages long, but no strict page limit is applied. The required language is English. You must submit the paper until the deadline, October 15, 2025, extended to October 29, 2025, as late submissions will not be considered in the review process.

All full papers will be subject to peer-review by the scientific committee. Review comments on full papers will be sent back to the corresponding author at the latest on November 30^th, 2025.

In case of revision iterations needed, the final accepted version has to be submitted until January 23^rd, 2026.