Special issue published: "Innovative Manufacturing Technology"

Int. J. of Manufacturing Research 12(1) 2017

• The configuration of social manufacturing: a social intelligence way toward service-oriented manufacturing
• An interoperable knowledge base for manufacturing resource and service capability 
• Commonality and performance metrics to evaluate and optimise the design of additive manufactured product families 
• Ontology-based technology function matrix for patent analysis of additive manufacturing in the dental industry 
• Energy modelling for FDM 3D printing from a life cycle perspective 
• A comprehensive and generic machine tools data model 
• The design and development of a real-time compensation controller of thermally-induced errors for CNC machine tools 
• An approach to tool path planning for layered plunge milling of free-form surface impeller channel