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High-performance manufacturing
Guo Dongming

The increasing demand for high-end equipment in crucial sectors such as aerospace, aeronautics, energy, power, information and electronics continues growing. However, the manufacturing of such advanced equipment poses significant challenges owing to high-level requirements for loading, transmission, conduction, energy conversion, and stealth. These challenges are amplified by complex structures, hard-to-cut materials, and strict standards for surface integrity and precision. To overcome these barriers in high-end equipment manufacturing, high-performance manufacturing (HPM) has emerged as an essential solution. This paper firstly discusses the key challenges in manufacturing technology and explores the essence of HPM, outlining a quantitative relationship between design and manufacturing. Subsequently, a generalized framework of HPM is proposed, accompanied by an in-depth exploration of the foundational elements and criteria. Ultimately, the feasible approaches and enabling technologies, supported by the analysis of two illustrative case studies are demonstrated. It is concluded that HPM is not just a precision and computational manufacturing framework with a core focus on multiparameter correlation in design, manufacturing, and service environments. It also represents a performance-geometry-integrated manufacturing framework for an accurate guarantee of the optimal performance.

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
Oct. 14, 2024, Vol. 6 Issue 6 60201 (2024)
Atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing: perspectives and measures
Fengzhou Fang

This article presents the three paradigms of manufacturing advancement: Manufacturing I, craft-based manufacturing by hand, as in the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, in which manufacturing precision was at the millimeter scale; Manufacturing II, precision-controllable manufacturing using machinery whereby the scales of material removal, migration, and addition were reduced from millimeters to micrometers and even nanometers; and Manufacturing III, manufacturing objectives and processes are directly focused on atoms, spanning the macro through the micro- to the nanoscale, whereby manufacturing is based on removal, migration, and addition at the atomic scale, namely, atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing (ACSM). A typical characteristic of ACSM is that energy directly impacts the atom to be removed, migrated, and added. ACSM, as the next generation of manufacturing technology, will be employed to build atomic-scale features for required functions and performance with the capacity of mass production. It will be the leading development trend in manufacturing technology and will play a significant role in the manufacture of high-end components and future products.

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
Jan. 28, 2021, Vol. 2 Issue 3 30201 (2020)
Overview of extreme manufacturing
Dongming Guo, and Yongfeng Lu

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
Jun. 04, 2020, Vol. 1 Issue 2 20201 (2019)
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