Acknowledgments
The Guest Editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to Professor Stephen Newman, Editor-in-Chief, and Professor Aydin Nassehi, Senior Editor, of International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, for the opportunity to organize this special issue and their advice and suggestions. The Guest Editors also thank all the contributors to this special issue and the reviewers for their time and effort. Further acknowledgement is to the partial support from the 2019 Guangdong Special Support Talent Program – Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leading Team (China) (2019BT02S593) for the work related to the organization of this special issue.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).