Abstract: The effect of tool-life scatter on the uncertainty of parameters of a typical tool-life model is analyzed using the joint confidence region approach. Some apparent contradictions concerning ...

Abstract: A simple machining operation is modeled according to some management choices by stochastic simulation, taking into account two main tool failure mechanisms. Under the assumption that premature ...

Abstract: The joint distributions of economic parameters corresponding to “optimum” conditions (minimum cost, and maximum production rate), as affected by a single tool wear mechanism, are analyzed and the ...

Abstract: A tool-life model based on the assumption that wear and fracture are the causes of tool death is re-examined from the theoretical standpoint, and extended to include the effect of cutting ...

Abstract: Under production conditions cutting tools often fail under several failure modes, the occurrence of a single one only for a given operation being rather exceptional. In light of this observation ...

Abstract: The paper deals with the main design problem for series production systems, namely the choice of efficiency-optimal values of interstage buffer capacities. It is shown that the design tool must ...

Abstract: A key problem in transfer line design is that of determining what size should be assigned to intermediate storage buffers in order to maintain a desired production rate despite the imbalances ...

Abstract: Surface texture generation in machining processes is examined in view of establishing a model building procedure capable of linking surface finish parameters to machining conditions. In the first ...