Investigation of Machining Parameters for Turning Process

Abstract

Manufacturing industries mainly concentrates on how to minimize the cost of the products. The process planers have to prepare the process plan of the product based on the availability of the recourses. All the information is available in the plan including inspection and delivery date of the product. Based on the recommendation of the manufacturing and inspection methods, components are produced at affordable cost. Most of the research work concentrated on selection of machining parameters using optimization techniques and also prove that the machining time / cost were minimized for the particular components / operations. In this work, tool nomenclature is to be considered for the investigation for selection of machining parameters. Work presents an experimental investigation of the influence of the three most important machining parameters of depth of cut, feed rate and spindle speed on surface roughness during turning of aluminium alloy. In this study, the design of experiment which is a powerful tool for experimental design is used to optimize the machining parameters for effective machining of the work piece. L9 orthogonal array experimental design method as well as analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to analyse the influence of machining parameters on MRR & Machining Time. Two different grade of aluminium alloy i.e. AL 6063 & AL 6068 were machined with input parameters of depth of cut and speed. The output parameters are MRR and machining time. Based on the results empirical equations are formed and optimized results are validation .The optimal results are recommended to manufacturing industries.