Integration of Cryogenic Machining Technologies in Advance Manufacturing Systems

Abstract: Conventional cutting fluids are an absolute necessity in today’s manufacturing domain, but they are a polluting and non-sustainable part of modern manufacturing processes. These conventional cutting fluids can be replaced by cryogenic cooling, which is an innovative and sustainable method which has been successfully implemented to produce aerospace products and have shown great success and great quality of finished products. But the implementation is the main obstruction as the volume of production in aerospace and automotive components is quite vast and implementation of cryogenic may pose an obstruction in maintaining the production flow. This leaves us with a large unexplored area for research specially in the implementation of the system in the existing system, which can help us get a seamless transition from conventional to cryogenic cooling. Some of the notable points that there is a need to investigate before one can go ahead with the implementation are factory layout, chip removal, raining of personal, safety, monitoring system, cost, time, implementation and integration, maintenance, source placement, mass scale supply and quality. In the first part of this work, a deep literature study has been done to know all the aspects of cryogenics and its implementation and factors that must be considered. In the second a discussion about the target industries has been made where use of cryogenic cooling has been considered. Also, a small discussion about the existing companies that provide this system has also been discussed. The room for improvisation is very large, and a lot of physical testing needs to be conducted before it can be successfully implemented.