Accurate prediction on energy consumption in machining is helpful to evaluate process energy characteristics and choose process methods for energy saving. Specific energy consumption expresses the required energy consumption when cutting unit volume material. The Back Propagation (BP) neural network prediction method for specific energy consumption in machining is set up in the paper. The predi...

In the literature, there exist many variations of machining economics problem in terms of modelling approaches and solution methodologies. However most of the existing studies focus on the single machining operation which is seldom in practice. On the other hand, tool management approaches at the system level fail to relate the tooling issues to the machining conditions, and ignore the tool ava...

Process planning plays an important role for ensuring machining quality, reducing production cost, and shortening leading time. Since there are many uncertainty factors for manufacturing resources in a changing manufacturing environment, especially for small batch manufacturing of large scale parts requiring long process planning time, manufacturing companies are facing significant challenges o...

Selection of machining conditions for improved performance characteristics has great importance during wire EDM, because numerous control factors contribute during machining. In the present study an attempt has been made to find the optimal machining conditions for multi performance characteristics simultaneously by applying grey relational analysis using entropy measurement for which Taguchi b...

This paper presents a methodology to be employed in the whole process design phase including first and second processing. This methodology consists of a set of steps which are characterised by an independent model. This paper’s objective is to analyse the coherence between the different models and the coherence between the model and the objectives of each step. The final stage is to develop the...

Determining the precedence of machining features is a critical issue in feature-based process planning. It becomes more complex when geometric interaction occurs between machining features. STEP-NC, the extension of STEP (ISO 10303) standard developed for CNC controllers, is a feature-based data model. It represents all the geometric and topological product data minus feature interactions. In t...

When viewed from the size of workpieces to be cut, there are only a few machine tools that are positioned between machining centers and large machines. Therefore medium-sized workpieces are often cut by large machines. However, as the tolerance requirements for such workpieces cut by large machines have become tighter and it is difficult to achieve such tolerance only with machine performance, ...

The application of conventional cutting fluids in machining operations is harmful and not eco-friendly. In this context, the present work focuses on environmental friendly cutting fluids such as vegetable oil based cutting fluids (VBCFs). The objective of this work is to determine the influence of vegetable oil based cutting fluids (sesame and coconut oil) with extreme pressure (EP) additive on...

Interactive sculpting is the process by which a designer can impose free-form shape changes on the object being designed. It has potential applications in the fields like computer aided geometric design arid rapid prototyping. Our approach to interactive sculpting is through the intermediate step of interactive virtual nlachining (IVM). IVM is a subset of interactive sculpting in that the degre...

Optimization of cutting parameters important in precision machining in regards to efficiency and surface integrity of the machined part. Usually productivity and precision in machining is limited by the forces emanating from the cutting process. Due to the inherent varying nature of the workpiece in terms of geometry and material composition, the peak cutting forces vary from point to point dur...