Data from a continuously operating high volume lathe was collected over a period of a number of months. This machine would periodically fail and unplanned maintenance was often necessary. Failures were due to a myriad of causes. At the beginning of each month, management was required to estimate production output for the month. This paper shows how this goal might be facilitated via a sequence ...

Burnishing is a method of finishing and hardening machined parts by plastic deformation of the surface. Experimental work based on central composite second order rotatable design has been carried out on a lathe machine to establish the effects of ball burnishing parameters on the surface roughness of brass material. Analysis of the results by the analysis of variance technique and the F-test sh...

Machining through turning was carried out in a lathe to study the chip formation of Multiphase Ferrite (F-B-M) microalloyed steel. Taguchi orthogonal array was employed to perform the machining. Continuous and discontinuous chips were formed for different cutting parameters like speed, feed and depth of cut. Optical and scanning electron microscope was employed to identify the chip morphology. ...