Editorial: Life cycle engineering in the era of Industry 4.0.

This article is an editorial published in Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology, discussing the topic of life cycle engineering in the era of Industry 4.0. The editorial highlights the need for industries to modernize their life cycle engineering strategies in order to achieve sustainability and a competitive edge. It emphasizes the importance of integrating machine learning, modern computing technologies, and information management to optimize the product life cycle. The editorial also mentions several research articles that have been published on this topic, including studies on preventive maintenance, semantic interoperability, nested lifecycles, and energy consumption prediction models. The article concludes by stating that the field of digital transformation in the engineering life cycle is constantly growing, and more intriguing outcomes are expected in the future. [Extracted from the article]