This first issue of ＜Asia Pacfic Journal of Industrial Management＞ is a selected edition of the 8th International Conference on Industral Management （ICIM） proceeding，covering research in industrial production management，advanced production management techniques，business administration man-agement，project management，research and development （R&D），industri-al quantitative analytical methodologies，and theroretical／empirical studies on artificial intelligence in industrial management，providing versatile refer-ences to specialists and experts as well as academic scholoars in industrial management and related areas.

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Development of A Customer Credit Evaluation System via Case-based Reasoning Approach.

Dielectric Elastromer Actuators as Arti f icial Muscles.

Analysis on Strategy of Multi-echelon Inventory Control Based on Delayed Ordering Policy.

Generation Method of Model Movement of Tool for Sill Training.

Order Acceptance and Rejection Decision for MTS and MTO Production Systems.

Construction of Control Charts Based on the Concept of the Taguchi Method.

A Scheduling Method of Cooking Tasks for A Cooking Robot with Detachable Hands.

Using Revenue-sharing Contract to Improve the Supply Chain Per formance Under Retailer’s Competition.

A Multi-agent System for Assembly Line Balancing.

Applying Stackelberg Game to Coordinate Cooperation Process of Shipbuilding Supply Chain，

Filtered Beam Search Algorithm with Partial Backtracking and Its Application to Job Shop Scheduling.