Sustainable Machining and Micro-machining

This book concludes the specific technical challenges and the current technological gap of the sustainable machining and micro-machining, which support target readers to discover the new opportunities of sustainable machining and micro-machining in the future. Sustainability is a significant factor for our next generations which it takes up as a main global challenge nowadays. Manufacturing, as one of the significant sectors in modern society, clearly highlights the sustainability issues to our city, and therefore, it is accountable for executing sustainable approaches ahead. Sustainable manufacturing consequently acts as a decisive role to support the sustainable development of industries. On the other hand, micro-manufacturing begins to be exploited, leading to a significant increase in the production volume of micro-component as well as a fabrication tool of scientific innovations for highly technological products. Referring to the scientific report, the market for micro-electronic and mechanical systems values at about 25 billion dollars. For such a big economic proportion for the community, micro-manufacturing has engendered environmental concerns by the public especially its sustainable issues. The impact of micro-manufacturing on the environment is similar to that of traditional manufacturing. Because of large resource consumptions from micro-manufacturing, micro-manufacturing units should concern about how to work out sustainability strategies. Nowadays, sustainable manufacturing, as well as micro-manufacturing, is executed meticulously by the manufacturing sectors due to an increment of pressures from society, stakeholders, and related customers. Assurance for the public toward sustainable development of traditional machining and micro-machining leads the industries to reformulate their approaches to retain the operations and comprehensive services for continuous developments of the industries.

Sustainable machining has been investigated for more than 30 years, and it involves various concepts, issues as well as different approaches to obtain the factors and the strategies for execution such as life cycle assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis and sustainable framework. With the concerns about the importance of the sustainable development of traditional machining and micro-machining, the authors discuss relatively new methodologies to demonstrate the factors in various aspects and sustainable strategies for machining and micro-machining in this book: 1. network analysis, 2. text mining, and 3. classification algorithm, which provides remarkable insights to the targeted readers, lets the targeted readers understand the relationship between the factors including machining parameters, stakeholders, and the factors involved in the triple bottom line and current popular topics of sustainable machining and sustainable micro-machining. At the last of the book chapter, the current status and future perspective of sustainable machining and micro-machining are discussed and revealed.