type="main" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Increasing pressures from a variety of directives and standards have caused manufacturing enterprises to consider and implement energy assessment and energy performance goals—to improve both their economic and their environmental performance. Flexible manufacturing systems...</p>

Automotive manufacturing is energy-intensive. The consumed energy contributes to the generation of significant amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the automotive manufacturing industry. In this paper, a study is conducted on assessing the application potential of such clean energy power...

Extreme performance requirements are demanding materials with functional microstructure and properties. Additive manufacturing (AM) is an efficient method to fabricate functionally graded materials (FGMs) with gradually variable composition and structures as a function of position. In this work,...