Green Manufacturing - Challenges and Applications

The text introduces the fundamental concepts and problems relating to green manufacturing at the levels of processes, machines, and systems. It also illustrates the potential for significant improvement and the ways to achieve the improvement using several examples from various industrial sectors.

List of contents

1. Green Manufacturing: Present, Past, and Future. 2. Green Technologies for Modern Manufacturing. 3. Concepts, Methods, and Strategies for Zero Waste in Manufacturing. 4. Implementation and Analysis of Clean Energy. 5. Circular Economy and Waste Management. 6. Nature Inspired Bio-materials: An Alternative Resource. 7. Renewable Bio-composites: Properties, and Their Applications. 8. Sustainable and Environment-Friendly Manufacturing. 9. Optimizing Sustainable Manufacturing: A Comprehensive Analysis of Innovative Technologies and Strategic Interventions 10. International Standards and Cross-cultural Communication in Manufacturing. 11. Industry 4.0: A Step toward Achieving the SDGs. 12. Green Manufacturing Approaches: Case Study. 13. Lean and Green Manufacturing. 14. Additive Manufacturing for Sustainable Design and Production. 15. Future of Green Manufacturing.

About the author

S. Suresh Kumar is presently working as an associate professor, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Tamil Nadu, India. His area of research includes the fabrication of materials, processing, and characterization of materials. He has published more than fifty research papers in international journals and conferences.
S. Thirumalai Kumaran is currently working as an associate professor, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, India. He has also worked as a Research Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea. He has published over 100 SCI/Scopus-indexed journals with over 2000 citations.

Product details

• Authors: Shanmugam Suresh (Kalasalingam Academy of R Kumar
• Assisted by: Shanmugam Suresh Kumar (Editor), Kumar S. Suresh (Editor), S. Thirumalai Kumaran (Editor), Sundaresan Thirumalai Kumaran (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032743677
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274367-7
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Product Design, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing, environmental science, engineering & technology, Automotive technology and trades, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering: general, Automotive technology & trades, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Hydraulic Engineering