“…It attempts to cover the issues related to key enabling technologies for smart manufacturing such as product quality inspection based on deep learning, remaining useful life prediction for predictive maintenance based on deep learning, Machine Vision Systems, intelligent recommender system, Intelligent Decision-Making of Scheduling for Dynamic Permutation Flowshop via Deep Reinforcement Learning, Real-Time and Explainable Process Monitoring, Intelligence-Driven Decision Support System. These contributions represent an advance in the state-of-the-art of key enabling technologies for smart manufacturing [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ]. The richness and diverseness of the papers submitted to this Special Issue confirm the importance of applications of AI in Smart Manufacturing.…”