International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) - Special Issue on Smart and Sustainable Machining Solutions to Reduce Environmental Footprints

Guest Editors:
Dr. Navneet Khanna, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), India
Dr. Mayur A. Makhesana, Nirma University, India
Dr. Octavio Pereira, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Submission Status: Closed

Summary and scope
With the development of modern manufacturing technologies, smart manufacturing is contributed to all the manufacturing operations and monitoring these operations using industrial informatics and Industry 4.0 or 5.0. Attempts are being made to incorporate the sustainability factor in the industrial sector as the globe moves towards a sustainable route. Since the manufacturing sector is one of the largest, it is imperative to integrate sustainability into this field. In addition, sustainable development goals enforce manufacturing industries to optimize the reduction of waste and energy.

This Special Issue presents recent scientific and engineering contributions of research to achieve intelligent sustainable machining solutions by reducing environmental footprints and implementing smart machining methods to improve energy efficiency. Several aspects related to green lubrication techniques, cleaner coolants, advanced sensors to achieve GHG mitigation and reduction, process optimization using IoT and waste management shall be covered. 

Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in Machining Systems 
• Process optimization using IoT and waste management
• Life cycle and sustainability modeling and analysis of machining processes 
• Machining to reduce environmental and carbon emissions
• Cryogenic machining, near dry/MQL machining, Machining using supercritical CO2 
• Hybrid machining techniques (cryogenic, MQL and ultrasonic assisted machining) 
• Additive + Subtractive manufacturing
• Hybrid nano-fluid assisted electrostatic minimum quantity lubrication machining 
• Potential impacts of nano-lubricants on human body and environment

Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors (this opens in a new tab). (this opens in a new tab) Authors should submit through the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type “SI - Smart and Sustainable Machining Solutions to Reduce  Environmental Footprints".

Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least two independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.

About the Guest Editors:
Navneet Khanna, is an Associate Dean (Career Development and Promotion of Innovation and Industrial Research) and former Mechanical Engineering department coordinator at IITRAM. He is a specialist in building a strong pool of trained engineering graduates and is involved in solving manufacturing-related problems of Indian Industries and Government Organizations. 

Mayurkumar A. Makhesana is working as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University. His current research interests include Sustainable Manufacturing, Materials Processing Techniques, Additive Manufacturing, process optimization, etc. He has authored several research papers in the area of sustainable manufacturing, materials processing, optimization, clean and green manufacturing, etc.

Octavio Pereira is a Doctor in Industrial Engineering at the Aeronautics Advanced Manufacturing Center (CFAA), having been included in the Stanford List of the top 2% most influential scientists worldwide this past year, highlighting therefore its impact in the field of sustainable manufacturing through the use of cryogenic cooling in the main machining processes, being associated with this research line for more than 10 years.