This book includes selected, high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability (ICIMES 2019) held at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malla Reddy College of Engineering & Technology (MRCET), Maisammaguda, Hyderabad, India, from 21 to 22 June 2019. It covers topics in the areas of automation, manufacturing technology and energy sustainability.

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Dr. A. N. R. Reddy is a Professor & HOD of Department of Mechanical Engineering at MRCET. He is currently working in the cross domains of research that include Design of experiments, Mathematical Modeling, Bioenergy production & analysis, Pyrolysis of Biomass, Synthesis of Nanomaterials, Combustion, Engine Performance & Exhaust gas analytics, Applied & Fluid mechanics. Dr. Reddy is actively engaged in industry collaborated research focusing on industry 4.0. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed publications and serves as a panel reviewer for 13 International Journals. Also, Dr. Reddy is a life member of professional associations such as ORSI, ISTAM, IndACM, ISTE, EWB and Member of SAE India, ISSMO. He completed his B.Tech and M. Tech from JNTU, Hyderabad, India and Ph.D. from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia. For his contributions, Dr. Reddy has received 4 innovation awards as well as 2 prestigious research excellence awards such as the Malaysian Government International Student Award 'Malaysian International Scholarship' from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia; Zamalah Graduate Scholarship from UNIMAS.

Dr. Deepak Marla is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). He is working in the domain of micro/nano-manufacturing using advanced techniques that involve lasers, electric discharges, electrochemical reactions, plasmas, and micro-tools. His research focuses on gaining fundamental insight into these processes through synergetic use of multi-physics modeling and simulation, and experiments with an eye on addressing critical challenges at the process level.

Dr. Milan Simic is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, School of Engineering, Melbourne, Australia and Visiting Professor at The University Nikola Tesla, Belgrade, Serbia. He is also an Associate Director for the Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering (AIRCAUSE). AICAUSE is a joint initiative of RMIT University, State Government of Victoria and ABB Group (India and Australia). He completed his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. from RMIT University Melbourne, Australia. He has published over 125 peer-reviewed publications, with 493 citations in the last 5 years. He has developed fast 3D metal printing technology, won an international award in Germany. For his contributions, Dr Simic has also received other prestigious awards and recognitions: Two for the research and development from Honeywell and two RMIT University awards for excellence in teaching and the provision of education to the community. As a KES Journal General Editor, Dr Simic is processing around 400 papers per year, with the support of more than 70 Associate Editors and 600 reviewers. KES is a worldwide association involving about 5000 professionals, engineers, academics, students and managers.

Dr. Margarita N. Favorskaya is a Professor and Head of Department of Informatics and Computer Techniques at Siberian State Aerospace University, Russian Federation. Professor Favorskaya is a member of KES organization since 2010, the IPC member and the Chair of invited sessions of international conferences. She serves as a reviewer in international journals (Neurocomputing, Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms, Pattern Recognition Letters, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence), an associate editor of Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal and Computer and Information Science Journal. She is the author or the co-author of 160 publications and 20 educational manuals in computer science. She co-edited 5 books for Springer recently. She has supervised 8 PhD candidates and presently supervising 5 PhD students. Her main research interests are a digital image and video processing, remote sensing, pattern recognition, fractal image processing, artificial intelligence, information technologies and the applications of artificial intelligence techniques in many disciplines including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, healthcare and so on.

Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor, School of Computer Engg, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from JNTUH, Hyderabad and Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha. He has more than 28 years of teaching and research experience. His research interest includes machine learning, data mining, swarm intelligence studies and their applications to engineering. He has more than 98 publications to his credit in various reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He has edited many volumes from Springer AISC, LNEE, SIST, and LNCS in the past and he is also the editorial board member in few international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE and Life Member of Computer Society of India.

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Performance Evaluation of Multi-Layer Barriers for Machine-Induced Low Frequency Noise Attenuation.- Planing Process on AISI S-1006, S-7 and S-4340, based on Johnson-Cook Model Using Numerical Technique.- An Analytical Study of Diametral Error in Simultaneous Turning Process.- Improvement of Electric Heater Design for Household Cooking Application in Developing Countries.- Embodiment of an Efficient Brown's Gas Compound Fuel Tank.- Automated Solar Photovoltaic Panel Cleaning/Cooling System using Air-water Mixture and Sustainable Solutions to Off-grid Electrification.- Design and fabrication of four way multi hacksaw cutting machine.- Adhesion strength of Plasma Sprayed Coatings-A Review.- An Experimental Studies on the Polymer Hybrid Composites- Effect of fibers on Characterization.- Design Analysis and Pressure Loss Optimization of Automobile Muffler.- Different Module for car parking system demonstrated using Hough Transform for smart city development.- Effect of Arrangement and Number of Water Mist Spray Nozzles on Air Humidity.- Vibration Condition Monitoring of Spur Gear Using Feature Extraction of EMD and Hilbert Huang Transform.- Comparative Study of PWM Technique for Switching Loss Reduction and Acoustic Noise Reduction in VSI fed Drives.- An Improved Genetic Algorithm for Production Planning and Scheduling Optimization Problem.- Automatic Calibration for Residential Water Meters by Using Artificial Vision.- "Hardware in The Loop" of a flow plant embedded in FPGA, for process control.- Error Diagnosis in Space Navigation Integration using Wavelet Multi Resolution Analysis with General Regression Neural Network.- Hydromagnetic squeeze film performance of two conducting longitudinally rough elliptical plates.- Performance and Emission Characteristics of Biodiesel from Rapeseed & Soybean in CI Engine.- A Practical approach to Camera Calibration for Part Alignment for Hybrid Additive Manufacturing using Computer Vision.- Development of a colour and orientation detection system for small part feeding.- Comparative analysis on battery used in Solar Refrigerated E-rickshaw in India.- Application of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) in a Sewing Line for Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): A Case Study.- CFD analysis to increase heat transfer in pipe with combined effect of circular perforated ring and twisted tape insert.- Study On Solar Parabolic Trough Collector With Different Copper Abs…