International Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing

• Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing: CAD modeling, assembly visualization, XML- and VRML-based product models, CAD/CAM fabrication of dental restorations, subcritical damage in fabricated parts.
• Fabrication, Assembly, and Sustainable Production: Battery fabrication and assembly, life cycle assessment (LCA), production energy use, manufacturing emissions, sifting and air classification, beneficiation of raw materials.
• Traditional, Non-Traditional, and Flexible Manufacturing: Conventional and non-traditional machining processes, flexible manufacturing system design, loop layouts, machine clearance, capital investment analysis, scheduling with genetic, memetic, particle swarm, and simulated annealing algorithms.
• Machining, Joining, Thermal Treatment, and Finishing Processes: Machining, explosive welding, solid-state welding, tensile shear and bending strength of joints, phase transformation, surface hardening, thermomechanical processing.
• Mechatronics and Friction Stir Welding: Force control, nonlinear observers, system identification, model updating, friction stir welding of aluminium alloys, dissimilar joints, fatigue behavior.
• Composite Materials: Machining of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), cubic boron nitride (CBN) and polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools, process optimization.
• Surface Engineering and Material Optimization: Duplex surface engineering, physical vapor deposition (PVD), plasma nitriding, diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings, titanium alloys, friction reduction.
• Recycling and Vacuum Technology: Recycling of waste printed circuit boards and tantalum capacitors, vacuum pyrolysis, pyrolysis characteristics, centrifugal separation, process optimization.
• Reverse Engineering: Reverse engineering of mechanical components, engineering drawing reconstruction, part cloning, reverse engineering taxonomies.
• Lean Manufacturing and Textile Engineering: Lean manufacturing, value stream mapping, computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), Lean Six Sigma, lean practices in textile production.

The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, case studies, and short communications. Software reverse engineering, clinical dentistry, and business studies with no manufacturing or materials processing component are out of scope. The journal serves manufacturing and materials engineers, production managers, researchers, industry practitioners, and students.