Sustainable μECM machining process: indicators and assessment

Sustainable Machining Process - Myth or Reality

Preliminary note The industry is under increasing pressure of the financial crisis, global competition, stricter environmental legislation and supply-chain demand. To tackle these issues, a sustainable development trend has to be assured synergetically on all the levels/fields, including machining processes. This paper promotes sustainable production via an improvement of machining technologies...

Process-based tolerance assessment of connecting rod machining process

Process tolerancing based on the process capability studies is the optimistic and pragmatic approach of determining the manufacturing process tolerances. On adopting the define–measure–analyze–improve–control approach, the process potential capability index (C p) and the process performance capability index (C pk) values of identified process characteristics of connecting rod ...

Sustainable Transport Indicators and Assessment Methodologies

Concepts of Sustainable Machining Processes

Sustainable production as a global word, content important elements on all the fields as well as machining processes. Machining can be performed either on conventional or nowadays modern CNC way. Novel machining processes are based on CNC programmable technologies containing elements as CAD, CAM, etc. To define sustainable production as the creation of goods, using processes and systems, we hav...

Towards sustainable machining of 17-4 PH stainless steel using hybrid MQL-hot turning process

The use of a minimum quantity of lubrication (MQL) with extremely low consumption of lubricant in machining processes has been reported as a technologically and environmentally feasible alternative to conventional flood cooling. In hot machining, the external heat source is applied during machining that will assist to increase machining performance. Many external heating techniques are availabl...