Selected examples of cutting process monitoring and diagnostics

This paper deals with one of the significant factors in cutting related areas, 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 specific approaches based on a so-called Intelligent Monitoring System (IMS) are considered. The IMS is implemented as an Intelligent Monitoring System Designer (IMSD) and it is applied as a so-called Intelligent Tool. In order to confirm the applicability of the above-mentioned approaches, several examples are discussed in this paper.