Reducing the environmental footprint of machining operations

The interest to use a green manufacturing strategy is steadily increasing in manufacturing companies due mainly to two issues: the environmental cost of production is taken into account by an ever increasing number of governments and the world resources are depleting so the material and energy cost are raising (i.e. the trend of iron cost is very well known by mechanical companies). With these boundary conditions is necessary to focus the research efforts in order to create a greener manufacturing strategy that could use less energy and resources.