Recently, eco-friendly machining has been drawing attention in manufacturing field. Especially, environmentally conscious cutting process has been developing widely. However, there is few method that achieves low environmental impact in final polishing field. Here, a new polishing method with fixed-abrasives was proposed, and compared with conventional method from a viewpoint of environmental impact. Environmental impact assessment by LCA and energy consumption was compared in manufacturing phase and disposal phase. As a result, it was found that polishing by human work was an eco-friendly process, even if it was compared with desktop size machine manufacturing. Moreover, the effectiveness by using fixed-abrasive process has been clarified in disposal phase.
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Ogawa et al. (2009) studied this question.