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December 28, 2023
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 18, Number 4, December 2023) has been published.

November 19, 2023
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 18, Number 3, September 2023) has been published.

July 23, 2023
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 18, Number 2, June 2023) has been published.

July 1, 2022
The journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management has received impact factor for the year 2022 calculated by Clarivate Analytics. The impact factor is 3.6, Q2 (Journal Citation Reports 2023, year 2022).

May 20, 2023
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 18, Number 1, March 2023) has been published.

December 30, 2022
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 17, Number 4, December 2022) has been published.

September 30, 2022
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 17, Number 3, September 2022) has been published.

August 31, 2022
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 17, Number 2, June 2022) has been published.

July 1, 2022
The journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management has received impact factor for the year 2021 calculated by Clarivate Analytics. The impact factor is 3.419 (Journal Citation Reports 2022, year 2021).

April 29, 2022
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 17, Number 1, March 2022) has been published.

December 18, 2021
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 16, Number 4, December 2021) has been published.

October 31, 2021
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 16, Number 3, September 2021) has been published.

July 1, 2021
The journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management has received impact factor for the year 2020 calculated by Clarivate Analytics. The impact factor is 3.382 (Journal Citation Reports 2021, year 2020).

June 25, 2021
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 16, Number 2, June 2021) has been published.

March 26, 2021
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 16, Number 1, March 2021) has been published.

January 1, 2021
From 2021 onwards, the content from published paper in the APEM journal may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.

December 24, 2020
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 15, Number 4, December 2020) has been published.

October 27, 2020
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 15, Number 3, September 2020) has been published.

July 31, 2020
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 15, Number 2, June 2020) has been published.

July 1, 2020
The journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management has received impact factor for the year 2019 calculated by Clarivate Analytics. The impact factor is 2.347 (Journal Citation Reports 2020, year 2019).

March 31, 2020
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 15, Number 1, March 2020) has been published.

December 22, 2019
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 14, Number 4, December 2019) has been published.

September 30, 2019
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 14, Number 3, September 2019) has been published.

July 1, 2019
The journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management has received impact factor for the year 2018 calculated by Clarivate Analytics. The impact factor is 2.047 (Journal Citation Reports 2019, year 2018).

June 9, 2019
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 14, Number 2, June 2019) has been published.

March 23, 2019
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 14, Number 1, March 2019) has been published.

December 21, 2018
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 13, Number 4, December 2018) has been published.

September 21, 2018
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 13, Number 3, September 2018) has been published.

July 1, 2018
The name of the publisher of the APEM journal was changed to the Chair of Production Engineering (CPE), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor. Previous publisher's name was Production Engineering Institute (PEI), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor.

June 28, 2018
The journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management has received impact factor for the year 2017 calculated by Clarivate Analytics. The impact factor is 1.596 (Journal Citation Reports 2018, year 2017).

June 15, 2018
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 13, Number 2, June 2018) has been published.

March 12, 2018
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 13, Number 1, March 2018) has been published.

December 10, 2017
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 12, Number 4, December 2017) has been published.

July 28, 2017
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 12, Number 3, September 2017) has been published.

June 21, 2017
The journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management has received impact factor for the year 2016 calculated by Thomson Reuters. The impact factor is 1.424 (Journal Citation Reports 2017, year 2016).

May 31, 2017
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 12, Number 2, June 2017) has been published.

March 10, 2017
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 12, Number 1, March 2017) has been published.

December 10, 2016
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 11, Number 4, December 2016) has been published.

September 9, 2016
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 11, Number 3, September 2016) has been published.

June 14, 2016
The journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management has received its first impact factor calculated by Thomson Reuters. The impact factor is 1.125 (Journal Citation Reports 2016, year 2015).

May 31, 2016
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 11, Number 2, June 2016) has been published.

February 7, 2016
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 11, Number 1, March 2016) has been published.

December 14, 2015
The APEM team is pleased to announce that our journal was positively evaluated for inclusion in the WEB OF SCIENCE scientific citation indexing service maintained by THOMSON REUTERS. Our journal will be indexed and abstracted in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – Science Edition, and Current Contents (CC) – Engineering, Computing and Technology. The coverage will begin with Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013.

I would like to thank the leadership of the Production Engineering Institute on Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – University of Maribor, and the laboratories' leaders for the financial support to the journal. My appreciation for the financial support given in the last two years is also directed to the Slovenian Research Agency – ARRS. I gratefully acknowledge the journal's founding team members, the current editorial team and the editorial board members for their support, suggestions, and a lot of good advice regarding the journal contents and the technical details. I gratefully acknowledge the reviewers for the time and expertise devoted to reviewing the manuscripts. Many thanks also to the English abstract proofreading experts and to the office personnel in the Production Engineering Institute for their contributions to the journal's success.

Miran Brezocnik
Editor-in-Chief


December 7, 2015
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 10, Number 4, December 2015) has been published.

September 5, 2015
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 10, Number 3, September 2015) has been published.

June 4, 2015
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 10, Number 2, June 2015) has been published.

March 7, 2015
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 10, Number 1, March 2015) has been published.

December 4, 2014
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 9, Number 4, December 2014) has been published.

September 7, 2014
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 9, Number 3, September 2014) has been published.

August 8, 2014
The APEM team is pleased to announce that our journal was positively evaluated for inclusion in the SCOPUS bibliographic database owned by Elsevier. SCOPUS covers more than 20,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers.

June 12, 2014
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 9, Number 2, June 2014) has been published.

March 12, 2014
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 9, Number 1, March 2014) has been published.

January 12, 2014
Users of the APEM journal website can now export article citations (for articles published in the year 2013 and later) to all major reference managers such as EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, JabRef, BibDesk, BibTeX-specific software, etc. The RIS format, BibTeX format and plain text format are supported.

December 23, 2013
The APEM team is pleased to announce that our journal is also abstracted/indexed in the knowledge-database TEMA® (DOMA®) Technology and Management which is one of the major sources of bibliographic information for engineers, technicians and scientists. The database is produced by the WTI Frankfurt, Germany.

December 5, 2013
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 8, Number 4, December 2013) has been published.

September 30, 2013
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 8, Number 3, September 2013) has been published.

September 17, 2013
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June 29, 2013
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 8, Number 2, June 2013) has been published.

March 29, 2013
New issue of the APEM journal (Volume 8, Number 1, March 2013) has been published.

March 7, 2013
A complete new and modern design of the APEM journal has been introduced.

March 1, 2013
New Instructions to authors for paper preparation
For all new submissions (i.e., submissions after March 20, 2013), please read carefully new Instructions to authors for paper preparation – APEM template for authors.

February 17, 2013
New Editor-in-Chief announcement
The APEM team is very pleased to announce that Miran Brezocnik will be the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal Advances in Production Engineering & Management beginning on March 1, 2013. Miran Brezocnik is a professor of Manufacturing technologies and systems at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of Production Engineering Institute.

Miran Brezocnik is the author of many original scientific articles in the world's leading scientific journals, scientific books, university textbooks, professional articles, and complex computer programs based on the artificial intelligence approach. His research interests include systems theory, manufacturing systems, advanced manufacturing technologies, modelling and optimisation of manufacturing systems and processes, artificial intelligence including evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, artificial neural network and fuzzy logic. For his complete bibliography please refer to this site.

We would like to thank professor Joze Balic, previous APEM Editor-in-Chief, for his editing activities from December 1, 2006 until February 28, 2013.