The International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management (IJPHM) is the premier online open access journal related to multidisciplinary research on Prognostics, Diagnostics, and System Health Management. PHM becomes a core engineering discipline for Industry 4.0, which enables real-time health assessment and prediction of complex engineered systems under uncertain operating conditions. This discipline has been widely applied to various engineering domains: manufacturing, automotive, air & ground transportation, energy and heavy industry, and maritime as a means to improve reliability, availability and maintainability. To focus dissemination of cutting edge research papers submitted in the 2017 Asia Pacific Conference of Prognostics and Health Management (PHMAP17), the IJPHM is thus calling for papers for a special issue on “Highlights of PHMAP17”.