Green Manufacturing issues in machine tools industry in terms of the life cycle

Green Manufacturing (GM) is a kind of sustainable manufacturing mode with the full consideration of resources consumption and environmental impact. Machine tools industry consumes much resource and generates huge environmental emissions, thus it is significant to gathers information about the GM issues in machine tools industry. This study summarizes the key GM issues of the whole life cycle of machine tools product, focusing on machine tools design, manufacturing, and use, and used machine tools remanufacturing. And Information is acquired from the academic literature, visits to industry, as well as through the research and practices by the authors. Based on the key findings from the gathered information, finally, this paper identifies the future directions of GM related areas in machine tools industry.