Sustainable Machining and Green Manufacturing
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 562
Special Issue Editors
Interests: erosion; corrosion; composites
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ever-increasing trends of the upcoming technology have led to many concerns related to environment, society, and economics in every field of engineering. Recently, governments and world leaders are advocating for sustainable manufacturing initiatives. To support and promote such initiatives, researchers, scientists, engineers, and academic institutions have a responsibility to introduce activities related to sustainable manufacturing and to prepare the future generation. This Special Issue focuses on the importance of green manufacturing and sustainable machining, particularly in relation to the “greening” of manufacturing, in which workers use fewer natural resources, reduce pollution and waste, recycle and reuse materials, and moderate emissions in their processes. Green manufacturers research, develop, or utilize technologies and practices to reduce their impact on the environment. Sustainable machining is defined as the creation of products by cutting material that uses processes which are environmental friendly, economically sound and safe (for employees, consumers, and communities), and can conserve energy. Sustainability in the machining process can be achieved by promoting environmental friendly practices such as dry machining, gas-cooled machining, near dry machining using minimum quantity lubrication, cryogenic cooling, ionic fluids, biodegradable and eco-friendly cutting fluids, etc. The hybridization of two or more such processes can help to achieve the goal of sustainability. Moreover, newly evolving technologies, such as big data, genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, represent the need for machining in the era of Industry 4.0.
Dr. Uthayakumar Marimuthu
Dr. Thirumalai Kumaran Sundaresan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- manufacturing
- green concepts
- sustainability
- machining
- Industry 4.0
- environmentally friendly
