Real-Time Monitoring and Diagnosis Platform for a Machining Process

This paper presents the design and development of a real-time monitoring and diagnosis system for diagnosing degraded cutting regimes in Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM). The detection in advance of the degradation of the cutting process is crucial since this can lead to the breakage of the cutting tool (the wire), reducing the process productivity and the required accuracy. This work presents the design and development of a real-time monitoring system that alerts of degraded operation. Unlike other works found in the literature review, which are focused on proprietary hardware, the present paper proposes a flexible real-time platform based on a commercial data acquisition board that can be easily configured for different purposes. It has been applied to develop a real-time monitoring and diagnosis system that uses virtual sensors to diagnose the process degradation. The results of this work show a satisfactory performance of the presented approach.