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Overview

Sami Kara is a researcher affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia, specializing in engineering and environmental science. Their work covers several subfields including industrial and manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, strategy and management, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The primary focus of their research lies in topics such as manufacturing process and optimization, environmental impact and sustainability, sustainable supply chain management, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, extraction and separation processes, recycling and waste management techniques, and sustainable industrial ecology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sami Kara include Michael Zwicky Hauschild, Gwendolyn Foo, Maurice Pagnucco, Christoph Herrmann, and Xingzhi Wang.

They have contributed extensively to several publication venues, most notably Procedia CIRP and CIRP Annals, as well as the Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources Conservation and Recycling, and Nature Communications.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Sami Kara are:

  • Closed-loop systems to circular economy: A pathway to environmental sustainability? (2022), CIRP Annals
  • Efficiency stagnation in global steel production urges joint supply- and demand-side mitigation efforts (2021), Nature Communications

Other notable publications relevant to the field include:

  • Absolute sustainability: Challenges to life cycle engineering (2020), CIRP Annals
  • Energy efficient machine tools (2020), CIRP Annals
  • Urban production: State of the art and future trends for urban factories (2020), CIRP Annals

Best Publications

  • Towards Energy and Resource Efficient Manufacturing: A Processes and Systems Approach

    Joost R. Duflou;John W. Sutherland;David Dornfeld;Christoph Herrmann

  • Unit process energy consumption models for material removal processes

    S. Kara;W. Li

  • An empirical model for predicting energy consumption of manufacturing processes: a case of turning process:

    W Li;S Kara

  • Energy oriented simulation of manufacturing systems - Concept and application

    C. Herrmann;S. Thiede;S. Kara;J. Hesselbach

  • Design, analysis and manufacturing of lattice structures: an overview

    Mark Helou;Sami Kara

  • Manufacturing big data ecosystem: A systematic literature review

    Yesheng Cui;Sami Kara;Ka Ching Chan;Ka Ching Chan

  • Sustainable product development and manufacturing by considering environmental requirements

    H. Kaebernick;S. Kara;M. Sun

  • Carbon emissions and CES™ in manufacturing

    J. Jeswiet;S. Kara

  • An Investigation into Fixed Energy Consumption of Machine Tools

    Wen Li;André Zein;Sami Kara;Christoph Herrmann

  • Design, management and control of demanufacturing and remanufacturing systems

    Tullio Tolio;Alain Bernard;Marcello Colledani;Sami Kara

  • Efficiency and feasibility of product disassembly: A case-based study

    Joost Duflou;G Seliger;S Kara;Y Umeda

  • Efficiency stagnation in global steel production urges joint supply- and demand-side mitigation efforts

    Peng Wang;Peng Wang;Morten Ryberg;Yi Yang;Yi Yang;Yi Yang;Kuishuang Feng

  • Simulation modelling of reverse logistics networks

    S. Kara;F. Rugrungruang;H. Kaebernick

  • Robot Assisted Disassembly for the Recycling of Electric Vehicle Batteries

    Kathrin Wegener;Wei Hua Chen;Franz Dietrich;Klaus Dröder

  • Toward integrated product and process life cycle planning—An environmental perspective

    Yasushi Umeda;Shozo Takata;Fumihiko Kimura;Tetsuo Tomiyama

  • Remaining life estimation of used components in consumer products: Life cycle data analysis by Weibull and artificial neural networks

    M.I. Mazhar;S. Kara;H. Kaebernick

  • Global production networks: Design and operation

    Gisela Lanza;Kasra Ferdows;Sami Kara;Dimitris Mourtzis

  • Eco-efficiency of manufacturing processes: A grinding case

    Wen Li;Marius Winter;Sami Kara;Christoph Herrmann

  • Absolute sustainability: Challenges to life cycle engineering

    Michael Zwicky Hauschild;Sami Kara;Inge Røpke

  • Energy Efficiency of Compressed Air Systems

    Smaeil Mousavi;Sami Kara;Bernard Kornfeld

  • Manufacturing flexibility and variability: an overview

    Sami Kara;Berman Kayis

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Herrmann
Christoph Herrmann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Sebastian Thiede
Sebastian Thiede University of Twente
Michael Zwicky Hauschild
Michael Zwicky Hauschild Technical University of Denmark
Joost Duflou
Joost Duflou KU Leuven
Wim Dewulf
Wim Dewulf KU Leuven
József Váncza
József Váncza Budapest University of Technology and Economics
John W. Sutherland
John W. Sutherland Purdue University West Lafayette
Russell J. Varley
Russell J. Varley Deakin University
Arno Kwade
Arno Kwade Technische Universität Braunschweig
Hussein A. Abbass
Hussein A. Abbass University of New South Wales

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