TY - JOUR
T1 - Current status, challenges and opportunities of sustainable ultra-precision manufacturing
AU - Yip, Wai Sze
AU - To, Suet
AU - Zhou, Hongting
N1 - Funding Information:
The work described in this paper was supported by the funding support to the State Key Laboratories in Hong Kong from the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), China. The authors would also like to express their sincere thanks for the financial support from the Research Office (Project code: BBXM and BBX) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and, the Research Committee of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under project code: B-Q57Z.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/5/20
Y1 - 2021/5/20
N2 - Ultra-precision manufacturing (UPM) is a promising manufacturing technology for fabricating micro-components and its production volume raises in the coming future due to a significant increase in the production volume for highly technological products nowadays. Therefore, UPM industries are accountable for executing sustainability practices to minimize negative environmental impacts from their manufacturing activities. However, sustainable UPM is difficult to execute practically up to now due to different aspects such as technology and knowledge gap. With a high speed of technology advancement nowadays, UPM industries enable to leverage this technological chance and employ the Internet of Things (IoT) technique to move UPM toward sustainability. Therefore, in this article, the current status and future perspective of sustainable UPM, the major research and technological gap between UPM and sustainability development, specific technical challenges for integrated IoT to UPM for sustainability goal are discussed and revealed to promote sustainable UPM. And consequently, a preliminary framework of IoT based UPM system with particular suggestions was firstly presented for facilitating sustainable UPM and acts as the reference to related industries and academia for further developing this novel technique in the future.
AB - Ultra-precision manufacturing (UPM) is a promising manufacturing technology for fabricating micro-components and its production volume raises in the coming future due to a significant increase in the production volume for highly technological products nowadays. Therefore, UPM industries are accountable for executing sustainability practices to minimize negative environmental impacts from their manufacturing activities. However, sustainable UPM is difficult to execute practically up to now due to different aspects such as technology and knowledge gap. With a high speed of technology advancement nowadays, UPM industries enable to leverage this technological chance and employ the Internet of Things (IoT) technique to move UPM toward sustainability. Therefore, in this article, the current status and future perspective of sustainable UPM, the major research and technological gap between UPM and sustainability development, specific technical challenges for integrated IoT to UPM for sustainability goal are discussed and revealed to promote sustainable UPM. And consequently, a preliminary framework of IoT based UPM system with particular suggestions was firstly presented for facilitating sustainable UPM and acts as the reference to related industries and academia for further developing this novel technique in the future.
KW - Internet of Thing
KW - Sustainability development
KW - Sustainable ultra-precision manufacturing
KW - Ultra-precision machining
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U2 - 10.1007/s10845-021-01782-3
DO - 10.1007/s10845-021-01782-3
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85106002063
SN - 0956-5515
VL - 33
SP - 2193
EP - 2205
JO - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
JF - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
ER -