An intelligent E-Manufacturing system was developed in this paper. The high speed machining center was rebuilt using 3D CAD system. The moving table (X axis), span column (Y axis), spindle (Z axis) and the tool changing system were modeled precisely. The high speed cutting (HSC) experiments of AL 6061 were carried to obtain the cutting forces and surface roughness for different cutting conditio...

It is very important to use reliable and inexpensive sensors to obtain useful information about manufacturing processing, such as cutting force, for monitoring automated machining. In this paper, the feed cutting force is measured using an inexpensive current sensor installed on the a.c. servo motor of a CNC turning centre. The factors that affect a feed drive system are analysed in detail, and...

Purpose: An adaptive control system is built which controlling the cutting force and maintaining constant roughness of the surface being milled by digital adaptation of cutting parameters. Design/methodology/approach: The paper discusses the use of combining the methods of neural networks, fuzzy logic and PSO evolutionary strategy (Particle Swarm Optimization) in modeling and adaptively control...

This work is about a fuzzy logic model in order to suggest an initial cutting tool geometry for each work-tool material combination. The Takagi-Sugeno-Kang model was used to design the fuzzy system that was trained with suggested empirical cutting tool geometry values. The system inputs are the specific cutting energy of the work material and the ratio of the quadratic bending strength over mod...

This research work describes an intelligent and modular architecture for controlling the milling process. For this purpose, it is taking into account the admissible input cutting parameters given by the stability lobes and restrictions of the system, calculating the quasi-optimal cutting parameters. The quasi-optimal cutting parameters are obtained considering a cost function with multi-objecti...

A R T I C L E I N F O Cutting tool vibration, Passive damping pad, Data acquisition, ANOVA, ANN. Received 20 February 2011 Accepted 23 February 2011 Available online 24 February 2011 Machining is a complex process in which many variables can deleterious the desired results. Among them, cutting tool vibration is the most critical phenomenon which influences dimensional precision of the component...