Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 4th international conference on information technology for manufacturing systems (ITMS 2013), august 28-29, 2013, auckland, new zealand. The 165 papers are grouped as follows: chapter 1: research and design of machine parts and mechanisms for manufacturing systems;chapter 2: materials science, microbiology, chemical engineering and technologies of materials exploration and processing; chapter 3: technologies of measurement, monitoring and detection; chapter 4: computational methods and algorithms for engineering research and design;chapter 5: control and automation of technological processes and manufactures;chapter 6: computer, communication and information technologies; chapter 7: architecture and civil engineering;chapter 8: environmental engineering; chapter 9: engineering management.
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