Development of a System for Selecting High-Quality Mold Manufacturing NC Data Using Evaluating the NC Data

NC 데이터 정량화를 통한 고품질 사출금형 NC 가공데이터 선정 방안

  • 허은영 (전북대학교 산업정보시스템공학과) ;
  • 김보현 (한국생산기술연구원 생산공정기술본부 e 가공공정팀) ;
  • 김동원 (전북대학교 산업정보시스템공학과)
  • Published : 2006.04.01

Abstract

Since mold industries are regarded as belonging to three types of bad business, capable young people are reluctant to work in this field. The industries are hard to employ skilled workers who have much experience and knowledge On the mold manufacturing. Thus, effective CAM systems are required for unskilled workers to create process plans and NC data for the manufacturing, and process plans play important roles in the downstream manufacturing processes, such as NC machining, polishing, and final assembly. This study proposes a decision support system that facilitates unskilled workers to easily select high quality NC-data, as well as to increase productivity. The proposed system is assumed to follow a CAM operation scenario that consists of next three steps: 1) identifying several process plans and enumerating feasible unit machining operations (UMOs) from material and part surface information, 2) creating all feasible NC-data based on UMOs using a commercial CAM system, 3) selecting the best NC data among the feasible NC data using four screening criteria, such as machining accuracy, machining allowance, cutting load, and processing time. A case study on the machining of a camera core mold is provided to demonstrate the proposed system.

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