This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments in manufacturing, giving a special emphasis to solutions for the Changing World Order. It covers applications of machine learning in manufacturing and advances in cyber-physical systems, human-robot collaboration, and machine tools and assembly systems.  It also reports on advances in logistics and supply chain, and lean manufacturing.  Based on the proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2024), held on June 23-26, 2024, in Taichung, Taiwan, this first volume of a 2-volume set provides academics and professionals with extensive, technical information on trends and technologies in manufacturing, yet it also discusses challenges and practice-oriented experience in all the above-mentioned areas.