Sustainable and Advanced Remanufacturing Processes

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing demand for advanced manufacturing processes for function is making an impact on the Earth’s resources, and its industrial practices are producing negative impacts on the environment, such as carbon footprints, energy resources, waste, etc. The trend of advanced manufacturing coincides with the acceleration of innovations in sustainable techniques. Sustainable development is a globally recognized mandate and it includes green or environment-friendly manufacturing practices. Sustainability also depends upon the 6 Rs of materials (reuse, recycle, redesign, remanufacture, reduce, recover) and manufacturing processes can play an important role in maintaining a homeostasis-balanced environment.

The scope of the proposed Special Issue includes sustainable and advanced manufacturing processes. We welcome high quality research papers presenting new trends in the study of manufacturing processes and materials with a sustainable approach. The Guest Editors (GEs) welcome literature reviews, research papers, and case studies that include but are not restricted to the following areas:

• Assessing affordability-based design methodologies that consider environmental factors for advanced manufacturing
• Implementing design for remanufacturing, recycling, and recovery
• Methods for assessing sustainability in manufacturing (e.g., life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, carbon footprint of manufacturing processes) and their impact on plant performance
• Focusing exclusively on sustainable materials, the 6 Rs, lifecycle engineering, and life cycle assessment
• Highlighting issues related to materials recovery, and circular economy, keeping in mind IR 4.0
• Materials/energy/resource utilisation factors, waste minimisation/management
• Use of new sustainable materials in processes (e.g., bio-lubricants) and their impact on environment and plant performance
• Case studies and comparison of manufacturing processes based on their sustainability
• Implementing real-time energy efficiency assessment of components and systems
• Optimizing the design and advanced manufacturing processes for optimizing energy and material efficiency
• Optimizing process technologies for transforming scrap into reusable raw materials
• Optimizing process planning and process scheduling for advanced manufacturing, especially in the context of low fossil-carbon and sustainability dimensions
• Optimizing manufacturing systems under multiple sustainability criteria, such as economic feasibility, fossil-carbon emissions, and energy consumption
• Monitoring and reducing the fossil-carbon energy footprints in advanced manufacturing process planning and production scheduling
• Cleaner production using different cooling-lubrication conditions
• Additive manufacturing/3D Printing towards zero waste manufacturing
• Eco-friendly machining

Dr. Chander Prakash
Dr. Sunpreet Singh
Prof. Dr. Seeram Ramakrishna
Dr. Alokesh Pramanik
Prof. Dr. Hongyu Zheng
Prof. Dr. Yongling (Linda) Wu
Guest Editors

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