An expert system approach for die and mold making operations

Cakir M. C., Irfan O., Cavdar K.

ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING, cilt.21, sa.2, ss.175-183, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 21 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2005
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.rcim.2004.07.015
  • Dergi Adı: ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.175-183
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: die and mold making, expert systems, DESIGN, SELECTION, TOOLS
  • Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In the modern manufacturing of sophisticated parts with 3D sculptured surfaces, die and mold making operations are the most widely used machining processes to remove unwanted material. To manufacture a die or a mold, many different cutting tools are involved, from deep hole drills to the smallest ball nose end mills. Since the specification of each tool is very different from each other, each mold or die is specific with their complicated shapes and many machining rules exist to consider, a great deal of expertise is needed in planning the machining operations. An expert system (DieEX) developed for this purpose is described in the present work. The geometry and the material of the workpiece, tool material, tool condition and operation type are considered as input values and various recommendations about the tool type, tool specifications, work holding method, type of milling operation, direction of feed and offset values are provided. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.