Green Manufacturing

Abstract

Green engineering is used to indicate environmental concerns in engineering. Green manufacturing is a subset of green engineering. Environmentally friendly machining is a part of green manufacturing. It is included in the concept of sustainable manufacturing, which considers economical and social concerns in addition to environmental concerns. This monograph focuses on environmentally friendly machining. An environmentally friendly machining attempts to minimize the consumption of cutting fluid, cutting tools, and energy.

A review on localised and multi-point aerosol application in minimum quantity lubrication machining

“…Figure 1 explains the current industrial scenario wherein the challenges are the collective outcomes of environmental and product quality issues. The challenges as mentioned above promoted environmentally friendly machining concepts, as brought up in reviews submitted at various times such as Weinert et al (2004), Kundrák et al (2006) and Dixit et al (2012). These concepts consider it essential to develop a machining process that can minimise the use of traditional cutting fluids or can replace them entirely with environmentally friendly cutting fluids to reduce the energy consumption and maximise the efficiency of the cutting tools.…”