SOCIETY OF THE SERBIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS FOR PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

The laureate of the highest award of the Association Production Engineering of Serbia, plaque and charter is Prof. dr. Dragisa Vilotic from the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad.

The laureate of the award medal dr Vladimir Solaja is dr Petar Janjatovic from the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad.

The next, 41st ICPES, is organized by Faculty of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in Kraljevo.

The 40th ICPES conference was organization Faculty of mechanical engineering in Niš, Hotel Crital light, where 54 scientific papers were presented with the presence of 94 authors and co-authors and guests from industry.

We hope that this aniversery 40th ICPES conference, through its ten working sessions, offered solutions to many current issues of modern production engineering, but also opened up new questions and dilemmas that stand in our way. Solving them is the task of all of us, from the youngest colleagues (students and assistants) whose energy is a guarantee that we can go that way, but also experienced professors, who will offer their knowledge to them so that they do not make big mistakes on the way and that they choose the right path at every research intersection.

In addition to them, experts from the industry should be right next to them so that new solutions are based on real foundations. Their greater presence at this year's conference shows that there is a lot of space for cooperation and the exchange of ideas, which have never been lacking. Ever-present, open questions: who needs whom and when, or who depends on whom, only bring us back, which is not good at all. We have gone through that path of mutual disagreement and non-compliance many times and it has led us all to today's reality.

We believe that the conference generated many initial opportunities that were recorded and announced in front of a large audience. One thing is certain, industrial practice, without a scientific approach precisely in the field of production machinery, has no chance of success in our region. Although many think that it is even redundant, global movements and trends remind us that they go hand in hand. The lag is even more pronounced when production engineering departments do not recognize the role of industrial practice in their environment.

Only so tightly connected in the Association of Production engineering, in human-based production technologies, they guarantee faster economic development, penetration into new markets and the creation of new jobs, in a word, they offer the future.

Dear colleagues,

Honoring the long tradition in Production Engineering in Serbia, the 40th International Conference on Production Engineering - Serbia (ICPES 2025) will be held at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Nis, 18 - 19th September 2025.

The main goals of the conference are the promotion and exchange of new scientific achievements and knowledge in the field of production engineering as the driving force of the economy and global society.

The conference will present the most important and dominant topics of industrial production, the development of technologies, materials investigation, the application of artificial intelligence in production, quality management and the sustainability of production processes, which are becoming more and more important every day.

Warm regards,

Organizing Committee of ICPES-2025