Sustainable Manufacturing as Factor of Innovative Production Processes
Sustainable Manufacturing as Factor of Innovative Production Processes
The challenge of a modern society is to assure a permanent economical impact in terms of goods and services. It attends to rising demands of the market for high quality, reliable and reasonably priced products and short cycle times. Therefore, the entire production process is characterized by ongoing innovations and reorganizations. The aim of modern industrial production processes is to provide products with a higher added value in a shorter time-to-market. This is ensured by technological innovations in all parts of manufacturing. Moreover, the whole life cycle of products is accompanied by customer related service provisions. Commencing with time and cost reducing product design and development, up to the recycling in the end of the product life cycle, the implementation of new production processes increases. The paper presents new developments and applications in case of product design, machining strategies, finish operations and recycling technologies.
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The paper has given me a brief view on recent technologies in production process.
As far as my understanding on the 'sustainable' issue, ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL are the aspects which embedded together in achieving the sustainability.
The three aspects also has to be accounted in the sustainable manufacturing as well.
Through your presented innovation technologies for the production processes, some of the technologies doesn't show clearly contribution to the three aspects.
However, most of the innovative technologies did more contribute indirectly to economical aspect such as shorter processing time, precise, productive, flexible, high quality and efficient that brings to higher value added activities.
I have one question only regarding to;
1. RP and 3D printing polymer.
2. CVD diamond and cBN.
3. HSG, HPG and AFM.
4. Micro machining.
5. Water jets, dry ice blasting and CO2 snow.
What are their contribution to environment and social aspects towards sustainability?
Cheers...
Zuhriah Ebrahim
Manufacturing Engineering Center,
Cardiff University,
Wales, UNITED KINGDOM