Energy and Resources Efficiency in the Metal Cutting Industry

Abstract

The demand for a better performance and a more economical manufacturing process is combined today with the requirement for an energy and resource efficient production in order to reduce cost and at the same time to comply with the environmental aspects. Material savings and improvement of component properties in key industries have led to challenges being identified in machining processes. Process and machine-orientated approaches are emerging from the product manufacturing and utilization phase that illustrate the many and diverse possibilities for overcoming the increasing demand as far as ma- chining operations are concerned. Examples for the ongoing trend towards more economical process chains in combination with better surface integrity, energy saving and resource efficiency is presented with few practi- cal examples from the metal cutting industry.