Advances in Production Management Systems: Innovative Production Management Towards Sustainable GrowthThe two volumes IFIP AICT 459 and 460 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5. 7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2015, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2015. The 163 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: collaborative networks; globalization and production management; knowledge based production