CIRP Novel Topics in Production Engineering: Volume 1

This is the first volume in the CIRP Novel Topics in Production Engineering (CNTPE), a collection of essays addressing novel research areas in production engineering, published regularly in book volumes. Each essay provides a systematization and explanation of a technology, an approach, a process, etc., and covers a novel research area once it has been published in the scientific literature for few years.

The essays provide focused and structured knowledge of a defined and limited subject in terms of detailed implementation, a systematic description of theoretical hypotheses and results, constructive and design characteristics for a product/process or experiment, and exemplary applications to real cases. These constitute the background knowledge for scientists/professionals to approach a novel scientific and technological area - addressing background concepts, relevant tools and methodologies, language, and theory.

Part I. STC A - LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING AND ASSEMBLY.- Chapter 1. AI-based pose estimation of human operators in manufacturing environments.- Chapter 2. Seamless human-robot collaboration in industrial applications.- Part II. STC C – CUTTING.- Chapter 3. Leveraging Transients and Material Properties to Improve Machining Material Removal.- Part III. STC DN – DESIGN.- Chapter 4. Modelling, Design and Simulation as-a-Service based on Extended Reality (XR) in Industry 4.0.- Part IV. STC E - ELECTRO-PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, LASER, AND RELATED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES.- Chapter 5. Material extrusion-debinding-sintering as an emerging Additive Manufacturing process chain for metal/ceramic parts construction.- Part V. STC M – MACHINES.- Chapter 6. Tool path planning and feed scheduling for time-dependent processes.- Part VI. STC O - PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONS.- Chapter 7. Decision making for fast productivity ramp-up of manufacturing systems.- Chapter 8. Artificial Intelligencefor Production Management and Control Towards Mass Personalization of Global Networks.- Part VII. STC P - PRECISION ENGINEERING AND METROLOGY.- Chapter 9. Atomic and Close-to-atomic Scale Manufacturing: the Fundamental Technology of Manufacturing III.