This paper reviews the literature on the emerging digital technologies of Industry 4.0 (I4. 0)
focussed on the applicability of the Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and …

Despite the rapid growth in the past decade, the industrial adoption of additive
manufacturing has not still been achieved due to certain limitations. A recent trend to …

Reviewed solutions to model additive manufacturing process planning do not include all
types of flexibility required by hybrid additive/subtractive operation. In the proposed system …

Industry 4.0 promotes the utilization of new exponential technologies such as additive
manufacturing in responding to different manufacturing challenges. Among these, the …

ABSTRACT Direct Energy Deposition (DED) is one of the Metal Additive Manufacturing
processes, which can be used to print near-net shapes and repair volumes using five-axis …

Subsequent to acceptance of these special issue papers by the responsible guest editor,
Vimal Shanmuganathan, the integrity and rigor of the peer-review process of the Special …

Currently, in manufacturing industries, hybrid manufacturing (HM) has emerged as a
paradigm shift since it provides numerous benefits which include lead time reduction, cost …

Hybrid additive manufacturing (HAM) is becoming increasingly important to obtain end-use
products. However, a couple of problems still exist in all the stages of HAM's processing …