Selected examples of cutting process monitoring and diagnostics

This paper deals with one of the significant factors in cutting related are as, which can be improved to give better overall machining performance. The authors propose how to shift the human machine tool operator position to a higher level of supervision by using an intelligent system to perform the cutting process and machine tool monitoring and diagnostics. The two specif ic approaches based on a so-called Intelligent Monitoring System (IMS) are considered. The LMS is implemented as an Intelligent Monitoring System Desi gner (IMSD) and it is applied as a so-called Intelligent Tool. In order to confirm the applicability of the above-mentioned approaches, several exampl es are discussed in this paper. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.