S. Das et al., A SIMPLE APPROACH FOR ONLINE TOOL WEAR MONITORING USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part B, Journal of engineering manufacture, 211(1), 1997, pp. 19-27
A wide variety of on-line tool condition monitoring techniques have be
en developed to the present time. Timely decision making for cutting t
ool indexing needs a proper method for assessment of the state of the
tool on-line. The present work demonstrates a very simple system based
on cutting force measurement for determination of the tool condition
on-line using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The technique show
s reasonably close estimation of the tool condition and enables succes
sful on-line tool wear monitoring.