Manufacturing Letters Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Laine Mears, PhD, FSMEClemson University International Center for Automotive Research, USA Associate Editors Horacio Ahuett-Garza, PhD Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico Emmanuel Brousseau, PhDCardiff University, United Kingdom Hongtao Ding, PhDUniversity of Iowa, USA Thomas Feldhausen, PhDOak Ridge National Lab, USA Grace Guo, PhDRutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA Ramy Harik, PhDClemson University, USA Benjamin Kirsch, PhDUniversity of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany Tom Kurfess, PhD, FSMEGeorgia Institute of Technology, USA Jingjing Li, PhDPennsylvania State University, USA Petra Wiederkehr, PhDTU Dortmund University, Germany Editorial Board Eamonn Ahearne, PhDUniversity College, Dublin Massimiliano AnnoniPolytechnic of Milan, Italy Dirk Biermann, PhDTU Dortmund University, Germany Maxence Bigerelle, PhDPolytechnic University Hauts-de-France, France Alexander Brosius, Prof., Dr.-Ing.TU Dresden, Germany Alessandra Caggiano, PhDUniversity of Naples Federico II, Italy Sylvie Castagne, PhDKU Leuven, Belgium Yong Chen, PhDUniversity of Southern California, USA Adam Clare, PhDUniversity of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ahmed Elkaseer, PhDKarlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Ping Guo, PhDNorthwestern University, USA Moneer Helu, PhDNational Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Lucas Hof, PhDÉcole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada Max Hoffmann, PhDRWTH Aachen University, Germany Martin Byung-Guk Jun, PhDPurdue University, USA Yasuhiro Kakinuma, PhDKeio University, Tokyo Philip Koshy, PhDMcMaster University, Canada Ruben R. Morales-Menéndez, PhDTecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico Ala Qattawi, PhDThe University of Toledo, USA Christopher Saldana, PhDGeorgia Institute of Technology, USA Hector Siller, PhDUniversity of North Texas, USA Masakazu Soshi, PhDUniversity of California-Davis, USA Pedro Daniel Urbina Coronado, PhDTecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico Joško Valentinčič, PhDUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia Xun Xu, PhDThe University of Auckland , New Zealand Jose Yagüe-Fabra, PhDUniversity of Zaragoza, Spain Yongda Yan, PhDHarbin Institute of Technology, China Chris Yuan, PhDCase Western Reserve University, USA Frederik Zanger, Dr.-Ing.Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Fu Zhao, PhDPurdue University, USA Emeritus Editor-in-Chief Kornel Ehmann, PhD, FSMENorthwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA