A GREEN PROCESS PLANNING SYSTEM

The worldwide demand for energy has increased manifold in the last two decades. For example, manufacturing industry alone consumes one third of the world’s energy. Innovating new methods of reducing energy consumption is an important issue drawing global attention. In this work, a green process planning methodology is developed for machining prismatic parts where the alternative process plans can be evaluated to ascertain their green quality. An expert system is used for developing the process planning module. Given the information about different features present in a part, machining operations, machine tools, cutting tools and material properties as input, the expert system automatically gives alternative process plans for machining the component. The system is capable of evaluating the green quality of the alternative process plans in the green criteria evaluation module regarding specific energy consumption, machining time, use of green material and material consumption. The performance of the green process planning system is validated on a variety of prismatic parts and agreeable results are obtained.

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