Process Manufacturing Industry and Process Engineering

Abstract

Manufacturing processes principally characterise the process manufacturing industries. The evolution of manufacturing processes has had a wide-ranging effect on problems that have emerged during the existence and development of process manufacturing industries. The series of changes and events that are taking place in manufacturing processes usually consist of a comprehensive integration of the mass flow, the energy flow, and the information flow. The science of metallurgical process engineering concerns the movement, transfer and chemical/physical transformations of mass flow, energy transfer and conversion, the relationships among materials and energy, and all other relevant information occurring at different levels, within different structures, and in different scales of the metallurgical manufacturing process. Its main intent is to study the structural evolution of the manufacturing process (the technological process of production) as well as the analysis/integration optimization of its structures and functions, or its restructuring optimization based on the integration optimization.