“…The examples of machine tools include; lathe, drill press, milling machine, screw machine, etc as depicted in Figure 1 . The machines tools can further be classified into dedicated machine tools ( Landers et al., 2001 ; Mayr et al., 2012 ; Chanal et al., 2007 ; Xu and Newman, 2006 ; de Lacalle and Mentxaka 2008 ; Koren, 2006 ; Valdes et al., 1997 ; Huang et al., 2010 ; Bringmann et al., 2014 ), Flexible machine tools ( Browne et al., 1984 ; Stecke, 1985 ; Mori and Fujishima 2009 ; Kostal &Velisek 2010 ElMaraghy, 2005 ; Patpatiya et al., 2021 ; Cook et al., 2020 ; Oshel et al., 2020 ) and Reconfigurable machine tools ( Ding et al., 2021 ; Xing et al., 2021 ; Kumar et al., 2021 ; Mahmoodjanloo et al., 2020a , Mahmoodjanloo et al., 2020b ; Huang et al., 2020 ; Ming et al., 2020 ; Bruzzone et al., 2020 ; Wang et al., 2020 ; Wang et al., 2018 ; Gadalla and Xue 2018 ; Olabanji and Mpofu 2020 ; Murena et al., 2017 ; Battaïa et al., 2017 ). The classification of machine tools is shown in Figure 1 .…”