Abstract

In the face of global warming, sustainability has become a hot topic. Sustainable manufacturing aims to analyze and improve industrial processes to mitigate their negative impact on the environment in terms of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. In terms of sheet metal forming, and especially in incremental forming processes, it is important to study how to manipulate parameters in a way that reduces energy consumption and CO2 emissions without degrading the quality of the final product. These impacts can be controlled by the manipulation of process parameters such as: rotational speed of the tool, radial displacement, and axial advance per pass. The main objective in this study is to determine energy savings and reduce CO2 emissions caused during the forming processes. The present work shows the experimental analysis for a steel sheet (ASTM A653), subjected to a conventional forming process through a simulation that reproduces the process conditions, providing the consequent energy consumption. Additionally, the single-point incremental shaping process is experimentally developed using current- and load- sensors that record the energy consumption of the process in real-time. The results obtained clearly determine the nature of the analyzed processes in a way that reduces energy consumption and CO2 emissions, which in turn improves the process in terms of overall sustainability.

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