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These are the proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advanced Mechanical Engineering (AME 2012), held on July 7-8th 2012 in Wuhan, China. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).The 92 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into 4 chapters: Advanced Mechanical Engineering; Advanced Materials Science; Advanced Digital Enterprises;Advanced Manufacturing Processes In addition to mechanical engineering, the 145 papers cover material science, digital enterprise, and manufacturing processes. The topics include the test and study of a soybean storage anti-grading device, the virtual and optimized design of the mechanical arm of a forestry felling and cultivation machine, workplace analysis and calculation for the manipulator of an explosive-handling robot in mines, purifying and characterizing an alkaline protease from /Bacillus alcalophilus/>, a new power flow control and management method based on a multi-line transmission/distribution system, and protecting and symbolizing innovation of manufacturing process of blue and white porcelain.