Sustainability analysis of rapid prototyping: material/resource and process perspectives

Ullah, Aman; Hashimoto, Hiroyuki; Kubo, Akihiko; Ni, Jun; Tamaki, ichi

doi:10.1504/ijsm.2013.058640

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“…Many organizations all over the world have taken an opportunity to implement sustainable practices in term of competitive positioning (Pretorius et al 2003), customer relationship and product quality (Szekely and Knirsch 2005;Hansson and Klefsjo 2008), environmental management and supply chains management (Kleindorfer and Saad 2005;Duflou et al 2012), environmental costs (Ambe 2009), operational practices (PROTON Annual Report 2011), strategic plan and action (Gunasekaran and Spalanzani 2011), material selection (Mayyas et al 2012;Ullah et al 2013), and continuous growth and expansion (Nagel and Tomiyama 2004;Yuan et al 2012).…”

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Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian automotive industry: confirmatory factor analysis

Habidin¹,

Zubir²,

Fuzi³

et al. 2015

J Glob Entrepr Res

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Sustainable manufacturing practices (SMPs) have received enormous attention in current years as an effective solution to support the continuous growth and expansion of the automotive manufacturing industry. This reported study was conducted to examine confirmatory factor analysis for SMP such as manufacturing process, supply chain management, social responsibility, and environmental management based on automotive manufacturing industry. The results of confirmatory factor analysis show that four factors for SMP implementation in Malaysian automotive industry were developed and verified. For the next agenda, the authors are looking at the confirmatory factor analysis of sustaining lean improvement in Malaysian automotive industry. The paper proposed with a future direction end of this research. BackgroundStrategically located in the centre of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Malaysia offers vast opportunities for global automotive and component manufacturers in order to set up manufacturing and distribution operations. Evidence show that Malaysia has been attracted global automotive companies (e.g. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW, and Peugeot) and international component manufacturers (e.g. Delphi, Continental, Denso, and Bosch) in order to launch their product in this country and meet the highest consumer demands (Malaysian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry 2012). However, Malaysian government should also regulate the entry of foreign products in order to ensure the local automotive performance can survive in the local and global market. Thus, a regulatory structure practice was gazette to protect and control the automotive manufacturing activity. South Africa, for example, could sustain their economic performance by adopting an import substituting policies (Barnes et al. 2004).Due to the rise in these issues, the awareness of Sustainable Manufacturing Practices (SMPs) has become an important element in manufacturing industry. A number of researchers have attempted to refine this broad array of SMPs into the framework.

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Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian automotive industry: confirmatory factor analysis

Habidin¹,

Zubir²,

Fuzi³

et al. 2015

J Glob Entrepr Res

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“…In more specific terms, sustainability means ensuring material efficiency, energy efficiency, and component efficiency, preferably simultaneously, for all products that inhabit the artificial world [2]. Here, material efficiency is with respect to the usages of materials and takes into account the issues regarding energy consumption and resource depletion while producing the primary materials; it also considers issues like the cost and weight reduction of a product [2][3][4][5]. Energy efficiency takes into account the energy consumption during the manufacturing activities (e.g., machining and assembly) of a product [2,5].…”

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“…Here, material efficiency is with respect to the usages of materials and takes into account the issues regarding energy consumption and resource depletion while producing the primary materials; it also considers issues like the cost and weight reduction of a product [2][3][4][5]. Energy efficiency takes into account the energy consumption during the manufacturing activities (e.g., machining and assembly) of a product [2,5]. Component efficiency takes into account the degree of fulfillment of the intended functionality, quality, and reliability requirements of the components used in a product [2].…”

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Machining Forces Due to Turning of Bimetallic Objects Made of Aluminum, Titanium, Cast Iron, and Mild/Stainless Steel

Sharif

2018

JMMP

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This article elucidates the characteristics of machining forces (an important phenomenon by which machining is studied) using three sets of bimetallic specimens made of aluminum–titanium, aluminum–cast iron, and stainless steel–mild steel. The cutting, feed, and thrust forces were recorded for different cutting conditions (i.e., different cutting speeds, feeds, and cutting directions). Possibility distributions were used to quantify the uncertainty associated with machining forces, which were helpful in identifying the optimal machining direction. In synopsis, it was found that while machining the steel-based bimetallic specimens, keeping a low feed and high cutting speed is the better option, and the machining operation can be performed in both the hard-to-soft and soft-to-hard material directions, but machining in the soft-to-hard material direction is the better option. On the other hand, very soft materials should not be used in fabricating a bimetallic part because it creates machining problems. Cutting power was estimated using the cutting and feed force signals. Manufacturers who support sustainable product development (including design, manufacturing, and assembly) can benefit from the outcomes of this study because parts/products made of dissimilar materials (or multi-material objects) are better than their mono-material counterparts in terms of sustainability (cost, weight, and CO2 footprint).

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“…However, materials have been considered a key factor for managing the complexity while designing engineering products (McDowell et al, 2010). In addition, to achieve a sustainable future, the reduction and diversification of material usages (i.e., materials efficiency) are considered more effective than other measures (e.g., energy efficiency; Allwood et al, 2011; Ullah et al, 2013; Sharif Ullah et al, 2014). This is even more relevant for the products called vehicles.…”

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A decision model for making decisions under epistemic uncertainty and its application to select materials

Shahinur

Ullah

Noor-E-Alam

et al. 2017

AIEDAM

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This study deals with both a decision model for making decisions under epistemic uncertainty and how to use it for selecting optimal materials under the same uncertainty. In particular, the proposed decision model employs a set of possibilistic objective functions defined by fuzzy numbers to handle a set of conflicting criteria. In addition, the model can calculate the compliance of a piece of decision-relevant (imprecise) information with a given objective function. Moreover, the model is capable to aggregate the calculated compliances for the sake of ranking a given set of alternatives against the set of conflicting criteria. The problem of selecting materials for making the body of a vehicle is considered as an example. In this problem, the indices for selecting the materials are unknown because the specifications regarding the vehicle body are not given. In addition, the data relevant to material properties entails a great deal of imprecision. The presented decision model can quantify the above-mentioned epistemic uncertainty in a lucid manner and generate a list of optimal materials.

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Sustainability analysis of rapid prototyping: material/resource and process perspectives

Cited by 33 publications

References 22 publications

Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian automotive industry: confirmatory factor analysis

Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian automotive industry: confirmatory factor analysis

Machining Forces Due to Turning of Bimetallic Objects Made of Aluminum, Titanium, Cast Iron, and Mild/Stainless Steel

A decision model for making decisions under epistemic uncertainty and its application to select materials

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