Comparative study of Sustainability Metrics for Face Milling AISI 1045 in different Machining Centers

Abstract

[EN] The objective of this study is to compare a set of sustainability metrics between different manufacturing resources applied to high performances machining centers. The research compares distributed scenarios in order to find the optimal conditions that allow the minimum consumed power and the minimum roughness when performing face milling operations of AISI 1045 steel. The set of experiments for the surface machining was carried out considering different path strategies in three main directions for two dimensional movements of the tool. The selected experiments considered the main axis movement, the perpendicular axis movement and a 45 degrees movement. Besides, it was considered the feed rate speed and the cutting depth. The design of experiments was developed with the Taguchi method considering an orthogonal matrix of L27 design type, and three levels of experimental design, and the analysis of variance and noise signal were performed. The methodology to determine the lowest power consumed and the best surface quality allowed to establish the working condition in the most sustainable machining. The results show how the cutting parameters influence in each manufacturing resource.