1. Editorial by V. K. Jain, I.I.T. Kanpur (India) for the Special issue on ‘Micromanufacturing’

   • V. K. Jain

   Editorial 01 June 2016 Pages: 1937 - 1939

2. Several advantages of the ultra high-precision additive manufacturing technology

   • Vyacheslav R. Shulunov

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 July 2015 Pages: 1941 - 1945

3. Micromachining of stainless steel with controllable ablation depth using femtosecond laser pulses

   • Chung-Wei Cheng
   • Xian-Zhe Tsai
   • Jenq-Shyong Chen

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 30 April 2016 Pages: 1947 - 1954

4. Micro-channels by Nd:YAG laser beam machining: fabrication, microstructures, and micro-hardness profiles

   • Naveed Ahmed
   • Saied Darwish
   • Muhammad Ali Shar

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 1955 - 1968

5. Experimental investigation of underwater laser beam micromachining (UW-LBμM) on 304 stainless steel

   • Rasmi Ranjan Behera
   • Mamilla Ravi Sankar
   • Alika Khare

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 April 2016 Pages: 1969 - 1982

6. Spark radius modeling of resistance-capacitance pulse discharge in micro-electric discharge machining of Ti-6Al-4V: an experimental study

   • B. Kuriachen
   • Jose Mathew

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 October 2015 Pages: 1983 - 1993

7. Evaluation of μEDM-drilling and μEDM-dressing performances based on online monitoring of discharge gap conditions

   • C. K. Nirala
   • P. Saha

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 October 2015 Pages: 1995 - 2012

8. Influence of electrode material in micro-EDM drilling of stainless steel and tungsten carbide

   • G. D’Urso
   • G. Maccarini
   • C. Ravasio

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 March 2015 Pages: 2013 - 2025

9. State of the art micro-EDM drilling using centrifugal servo-mechanism for workpiece actuation

   • Ehsan Amouzegar
   • Samrand Rash Ahmadi
   • Ali Donyavi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 03 June 2015 Pages: 2027 - 2035

10. Effect of non-electrical parameters in μED milling: an experimental investigation

    • J. M. Jafferson
    • P. Hariharan
    • J. Ram Kumar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 October 2015 Pages: 2037 - 2047

11. Study on effect of process parameters on overcut and tool wear rate during micro-electro-discharge slotting process

    • Harshit K. Dave
    • Vishal J. Mathai
    • Keyur P. Desai

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 July 2015 Pages: 2049 - 2060

12. Fabrication of texturing tool to produce array of square holes for EDM by abrasive water jet machining

    • Vijay Kumar Pal
    • S. K. Choudhury

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 October 2015 Pages: 2061 - 2071

13. Fabrication of complex circuit on printed circuit board (PCB) using electrochemical micro-machining

    • Jitendra Singh
    • V. K. Jain
    • J. Ramkumar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 September 2015 Pages: 2073 - 2081

14. Investigations on geometry and productivity of micro-holes in Incoloy 800 by pulsed electrolytic jet drilling

    • N. K. Jain
    • A. Potpelwar
    • N. K. Mehta

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 January 2016 Pages: 2083 - 2095

15. An experimental investigation on developed WECSM during micro slicing of e-glass fibre epoxy composite

    • Anup Malik
    • Alakesh Manna

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 May 2016 Pages: 2097 - 2106

16. A study to explore the properties of electrochemical discharge effect based on pulse power supply

    • Zhaoyang Zhang
    • Lei Huang
    • Hongwu Zhuang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 January 2016 Pages: 2107 - 2114

17. Experimental study of electrophoretically assisted micro-ultrasonic machining

    • H. S. Lian
    • Z. N. Guo
    • J. F. He

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 December 2014 Pages: 2115 - 2124

18. Experimental studies on tool wear in μ-RUM process

    • Anil Kumar Jain
    • Pulak M. Pandey

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 January 2016 Pages: 2125 - 2138

19. Experimental investigation of machinability parameters in high-speed micro-end milling of titanium (grade-2)

    • C. Bandapalli
    • K. K. Singh
    • D. V. Bhatt

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 July 2015 Pages: 2139 - 2153

20. Robust design of using nanofluid/MQL in micro-drilling

    • Wei-Tai Huang
    • Der-Ho Wu
    • Jian-Ting Chen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 June 2015 Pages: 2155 - 2161

21. Finishing force analysis and simulation of nanosurface roughness in abrasive flow finishing process using medium rheological properties

    • Sachin Singh
    • A. S. Arjun Raj
    • V. K. Jain

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 February 2016 Pages: 2163 - 2178

22. Nano-finishing of cylindrical hard steel tubes using rotational abrasive flow finishing (R-AFF) process

    • M. Ravi Sankar
    • V. K. Jain
    • J. Ramkumar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2016 Pages: 2179 - 2187

23. Nanometric surface finishing of typical industrial components by abrasive flow finishing

    • T. S. Kavithaa
    • N. Balashanmugam

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 February 2016 Pages: 2189 - 2196

24. Effect of honing gear hardness on microgeometry and surface quality improvement of straight bevel gears in PECH process

    • Sunil Pathak
    • N. K. Jain
    • I. A. Palani

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 August 2015 Pages: 2197 - 2205

25. Investigations on surface quality, surface integrity and specific energy consumption in finishing of straight bevel gears by PECH process

    • Sunil Pathak
    • N. K. Jain
    • I. A Palani

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 May 2016 Pages: 2207 - 2222

26. Investigations on micro-geometry improvement of straight bevel gears finished by electrochemical honing process

    • J. H. Shaikh
    • N. K. Jain

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 September 2015 Pages: 2223 - 2234

27. Performance evaluation of grinding wheels impregnated with graphene nanoplatelets

    • Bhanu Pavan Ravuri
    • Bhanu Kiran Goriparthi
    • Venu Gopal Anne

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 July 2015 Pages: 2235 - 2245

28. Continuous injection direct rolling for optical elements with microstructures

    • Haixiong Wang
    • Yonghu Lv
    • C. F. Cheung

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 February 2016 Pages: 2247 - 2255

29. Experimental investigations of grain size effects in forward microextrusion

    • D. Rajenthirakumar
    • R. Sridhar
    • Dwarkesh Bagri

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 July 2015 Pages: 2257 - 2264

30. Numerical simulation and experimental research on water jet forming of copper foil

    • Qi Zhang
    • Tongtong Zhang
    • Shibo Wu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 February 2016 Pages: 2265 - 2276

31. Micro-tube fabricating path compensation method research

    • Youping Gong
    • Yunpeng Lv
    • Guojin Chen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 January 2016 Pages: 2277 - 2286

32. Optimization of fusion zone grain size, hardness, and ultimate tensile strength of pulsed current micro plasma arc welded Inconel 625 sheets using genetic algorithm

    • Kondapalli Siva Prasad
    • Chalamalasetti Srinivasa Rao
    • Damera Nageswara Rao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 June 2015 Pages: 2287 - 2295

33. A precise approach for the determination of the setup parameters to utilize maximum work space of five-axis CNC machine tools

    • Zezhong C. Chen
    • Aqeel Ahmed

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2297 - 2311

34. A study of the improvement surface roughness and optimum machining characteristic of L-shaped tube STS 316L by electropolishing

    • Seong-Hyun Kim
    • Seung-Gun Choi
    • Eun-Sang Lee

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2313 - 2324

35. Design and experimental study of turning tools with linear cutting edges and comparison to commercial tools

    • Peter Monka
    • Katarina Monkova
    • Matej Somsak

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2325 - 2343

36. A hybrid heuristic method for the periodic inventory routing problem

    • Shu-Chu Liu
    • Ming-Che Lu
    • Chih-Hung Chung

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2345 - 2352

37. Particle swarm optimization algorithm embedded with maximum deviation theory for solving multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem

    • Manas Ranjan Singh
    • Madhusmita Singh
    • Nibedita Jagadev

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2353 - 2366

38. Laser micro-polishing for metallic surface using UV nano-second pulse laser and CW laser

    • Jang Pong-Ryol
    • Jang Tae-Sok
    • Ji kum-Hyok

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2367 - 2375

39. Finite element simulation for Ti-6Al-4V alloy deformation near the exit of orthogonal cutting

    • Jiapeng Lu
    • Jianbin Chen
    • Tan Jin

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2377 - 2388

40. Numerical optimization of blank shape considering flatness and variable blank holder force for cylindrical cup deep drawing

    • Satoshi Kitayama
    • Shinji Natsume
    • Hiroaki Uchida

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2389 - 2400

41. Additive manufacturing and post-processing simulation: laser cladding followed by high speed machining

    • Konstantinos Salonitis
    • Laurent D’Alvise
    • Dimitrios Chantzis

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2015 Pages: 2401 - 2411

42. Rectifying inspection for acceptable quality loss limit based on variable repetitive group sampling plan

    • Ikuo Arizono
    • Yusuke Okada
    • Yasuhiko Takemoto

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 November 2015 Pages: 2413 - 2423

43. Development of plasma electrolytic oxidation for improved Ti6Al4V biomaterial surface properties

    • Krzysztof Rokosz
    • Tadeusz Hryniewicz
    • Steinar Raaen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 18 November 2015 Pages: 2425 - 2437

44. A modified imperialist competitive algorithm for scheduling single batch-processing machine with fuzzy due date

    • S. Molla-Alizadeh-Zavardehi
    • R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam
    • F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 November 2015 Pages: 2439 - 2458

45. An immunity-based hybrid genetic algorithms for permutation flowshop scheduling problems

    • Malika Bessedik
    • Fatima Benbouzid-Si Tayeb
    • Ammar Blizak

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 November 2015 Pages: 2459 - 2469

46. A new net-shape plating technology for axisymmetric metallic parts using rotary swaging

    • Vasile Şchiopu
    • Dorin Luca

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 November 2015 Pages: 2471 - 2482

47. A statistical quality monitoring method for plastic injection molding using machine built-in sensors

    • Yun Zhang
    • Ting Mao
    • Dequn Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 November 2015 Pages: 2483 - 2494

48. Barrel cutter design and toolpath planning for high-efficiency machining of freeform surface

    • Ming Luo
    • Dongqing Yan
    • Dinghua Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 November 2015 Pages: 2495 - 2503

49. Simulation optimization for the vehicle routing problem with time windows using a Bayesian network as a probability model

    • Ricardo Pérez-Rodríguez
    • Arturo Hernández-Aguirre

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 November 2015 Pages: 2505 - 2523

50. Investigation of viscous pressure forming for 6K21-T4 aluminum alloy car panels

    • Zhong-jin Wang
    • Li-huang Zheng
    • Peng-yi Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 November 2015 Pages: 2525 - 2534