Intelligent Additive/Subtractive Manufacturing

Dear Colleagues,

As industrialization advances global connections, manufacturing processes are required to be more efficient than before. Thus, factory operations and fabrication tasks are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic, automated, connected, and remotely operated. This has created ample challenges and opportunities for Industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness. Additive manufacturing, an enabler of Industry 4.0, recently opened limitless opportunities in various sectors covering personal, industrial, medical, aviation, and even extra-terrestrial applications. However, limitations of industrial-scale additively manufactured (AMed) parts arise due to the issues of machines, processes, and materials. Moreover, inadequate cyber-physical systems (CPS), lack of collaboration, and intelligence in the entire additive manufacturing platform hinder machine-to-machine (M2M) data distributions and machine-to-human (M2H) interactions for rapid prototyping and industrial-scale manufacturing requirement. This is also true for conventional subtractive manufacturing processes, which can augment AMed part quality by finishing and post-processing. More importantly, the intelligent and hybrid additive/subtractive processes can remove barriers to AMed parts becoming fully functional products used for a wide range of Macro-to-Micro-to-Nano scale applications. Thus, this Special Issue will publish research and review articles covering smart manufacturing systems emphasizing additive, subtractive, and/or hybrid processes in a collaborative, predictive, decisive, and intelligent environment.

Dr. Muhommad Azizur Rahman
Dr. Tanveer Saleh
Dr. Muhammad Pervej Jahan
Guest Editors

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