Advanced and Sustainable Machining

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable machining aims to reduce negative impacts regarding the social, ecological and economical dimensions in manufacturing. To improve sustainability, the material input and output of the machining process should be considered, as well as tools and supporting media such as cooling lubricants. Moreover, innovative tool design and cutting materials contribute to increased efficiency. Beyond the process perspective, machine tools have an impact on sustainability due to higher energy efficiency or process integration. Finally, the acquisition of sustainable-related data and their application for standards such as life cycle assessment represents a major lever to ensure sustainability in machining processes. 

In this Special Issue of JMMP, we are looking for recent research focusing on sustainable machining processes, technologies and machine tools. The contributions should also address innovative concepts and models for holistic sustainability assessment based on existing standards such as life cycle assessment. Papers will be taken into account showing significant improvement compared to the state of the art regarding sustainability assessment, process stability, cooling strategies and media, material and tool aspects as well as data acquisition and digital twin approaches with respect to social, ecological and economical aspects of machining processes.

Prof. Dr. Nico Hanenkamp
Prof. Dr. Christoph Herrmann
Guest Editors

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