Meet the editor

Assoc. Prof. Anil Akdogan was born in Antalya, Turkey in 1976. Prof. Akdogan earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 and her PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 from Yildiz Technical University, Mechanical Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey. She has over 20 years' experience in teaching at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty at Yildiz Technical University. She has been instruct-

ing courses in "Measurement Techniques and Evaluation", "Quality in Industry", "Manufacturing Technologies", and "Measurement Techniques and Quality Management" for many years. She has published many manuscripts in international journals and presented proceedings at different international conferences about manufacturing technologies and industrial metrology.

Dr Ali Serdar Vanli was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1982. Dr Vanli earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Mechanical Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey in 2013. He has almost 15 years' experience in teaching at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty at Yildiz Technical University. He has been working as a

research assistant and additionally instructing "Casting" and "Die Casting" courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He has published many manuscripts in international journals and presented proceedings at different international conferences about manufacturing technologies. He has consulted many exporting mass production companies in Turkey for many years.

Contents

**Section 1**

Stir Welding

**Section 2**

*by Ramesh Rudrapati*

Manufacturing Systems

of Automobile Parts

*by Luis Valdivia and Pedro Palominos*

*by Hana Trollman and Frank Trollman*

Rapid Prototyping for Sheet Metal Products

*by Nguyen Duc-Toan and Hoang Long*

**Preface III**

Alloys in Manufacturing **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 21**

Advanced Production Systems **37**

**Chapter 4 39**

**Chapter 5 63**

**Chapter 6 85**

**Chapter 7 97**

Introductory Chapter: Mass Production and Industry 4.0

Recent Advances in Joining of Aluminum Alloys by Using Friction

Quantification of Feeding Regions of Hypoeutectic Al-(5, 7, 9) Si-(0-4)Cu (wt.%) Alloys Using Cooling Curve Analysis *by Gerhard Huber, Mile B. Djurdjevic and Srećko Manasijević*

A Methodology to Design and Balance Multiple Cell

A Sustainability Assessment of Smart Innovations for Mass

Production, Mass Customisation and Direct Digital Manufacturing

The Use of Lean Manufacturing Tools to Improve the Production

*by Jonathan-David Morales-Méndez and Ramón Silva-Rodríguez*

*by Anil Akdogan and Ali Serdar Vanli*
