Editorial In the event of rising costs, increasing space and labour problems and demand for increasing accuracies for higher qualities, future industry needs intelligent nanoscale dematerialized manufacturing. The machine builders need to change manufacturing from currently producing heavy, long-delivery-time and high-energy-consuming machines to tailored combinations of extremely light-weighted, nonstiff, skeletal and low-environmental-impact machines integrated with appropriate total

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... e services based on innovative winto-win business models with intelligent manufacturing [1]. The digital thread unites the life stages of a manufactured product, from design to production to field use basing in nanoscales.