Papers submitted to the 52nd North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC 52) must be prepared using the conference paper template in Microsoft Word or LaTeX, and they must strictly follow the instructions in the template. NAMRC papers should only report unpublished materials of the authors, and/or be review of the state of the art. Each paper must have a speaker identified at the time of paper submission. Each paper shall consist of a minimum of 3 (Three) pages and a maximum of 12 (Twelve) pages. After review, high quality papers will be recommended to be fast-tracked to SME’s Journal of Manufacturing Systems (JMS) and Journal of Manufacturing Processes (JMP).