Development Of Interactive Machining Process Design And Machining Time Calculation.

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UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE MACHINING PROCESS

DESIGN AND MACHINING TIME CALCULATION

This report submitted in accordance with requirement of the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) for the Bachelor Degree of Manufacturing Engineering

(Manufacturing Management) with Honours.

MOHAMAD IZWAN BIN ISHAK

FACULTY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING APRIL 2010

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BORANG PENGESAHAN STATUS TESIS*

UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

JUDUL: Development of interactive machining process design and machining time calculation

SESI PENGAJIAN: 2009-2010

Saya _____________________________________________________________________ mengaku membenarkan tesis (PSM/Sarjana/Doktor Falsafah) ini disimpan di

Perpustakaan Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) dengan syarat-syarat kegunaan seperti berikut:

1. Tesis adalah hak milik Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka.

2. Perpustakaan Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka dibenarkan membuat salinan untuk tujuan pengajian sahaja.

3. Perpustakaan dibenarkan membuat salinan tesis ini sebagai bahan pertukaran antara institusi pengajian tinggi.

4. **Sila tandakan (√)

Mohamad Izwan Bin Ishak

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DECLARATION

I hereby declare that this report entitled “Development of interactive machining process design and machining time calculation” is the result of my own research except as cited

in the references.

Signature :

Author’s name : Mohamad Izwan Bin Ishak

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APPROVAL

This report is submitted to the Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering of UTeM as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Manufacturing Engineering (Manufacturing Management). The members of the supervisory committee are as follow:

Ab Rahman bin Mahmood PSM Supervisor

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ABSTRACT

The title of this project is “Development of interactive machining process design and machining time calculation”. This project will discuss on the method to calculate the machining time and the cost involved in the machining process. The calculation of the machining time and cost is important in order to make a good planning for the production especially for a new product. The current method to calculate the machining time and cost is analyzed and will be compared with the proposed method. The excel-based software will be develop as a proposed method to calculate the machining time and cost. The software will include the selection of machining process, selection of tooling along with the other time element to calculate the machining time. After that, the cost involve in the machining process will be calculated from the time that result from the calculation with the addition of other cost like tool and material cost, indirect cost and etc. This software will help to reduce the workload for the one whom responsible to make the production planning. This software will be built in interactive way to make the software usage easier.

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ABSTRAK

Tajuk projek ini ialah "Pembangunan rekabentuk proses permesinan interaktif dan pengkiraan masa permesinan". Projek ini akan membincangkan tentang kaedah untuk mengira kitaran masa permesinan dan kos yang terlibat dalam proses permesinan. Pengiraan kitaran masa permesinan dan kos adalah penting untuk membuat perancangan yang baik untuk pengeluaran terutamanya untuk produk baru. Kaedah yang sedag digunakan untuk mengira kitaran masa permesinan dan kos dianalisis dan akan dibandingkan dengan kaedah yang akan dicadangkan. Perisian berasaskan excel akan dihasilkan sebagai kaedah yang dicadangkan untuk mengira kitaran enjin masa dan kos. Perisian ynag akan dihasilkan akan merangkumi pemilihan proses permesinan, pemilihan mata alat bersama dengan elemen waktu lain untuk menghitung masa permesinan. Selepas itu kos permesinan akan dikira daripada masa yang kita dapatkan dari pengkiraan kitaran masa permesinan dengan tambahan kos lain seperti kos alat dan kos bahan, kos tidak langsung dan sebagainya. Perisian ini akan membantu untuk mengurangkan beban kerja bagi orang yang bertanggungjawab untuk membuat perancangan pengeluaran. Perisian ini akan dibina secara interaktif untuk membuat penggunaan perisian menjadi lebih mudah.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In name of Allah S.W.T the most Merciful and the most Beneficent. It is with the deepest senses gratitude of the almighty that give me strength and ability to complete this project.

First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to Mr. Hj. Abdul Rahman Bin Mahmood, the lecturer and supervisor for my project for the guidances while I am conducting my project and provide me with the material, ideas and suggestion in improving the contents of my project.

Not forgotten also to all my friends and colleagues that had been a great help for me to complete my project properly and to Mr. Joizudin, Hicom-Engineering plant manager for giving me an opportunity to conduct my project at his company.

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TABLE OF CONTENT

Abstract i

Abstrak ii

Acknowledgement iii

Table of Content iv

List of Tables viii

List of Figures ix

List Abbreviations xi

1. INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Background 1

1.2 Problem statement 2

1.3 Objectives 3

1.4 Scope and limitation 3

2. LITERATURE REVIEW 4

2.1 CNC Lathe Machining 4

2.1.1 Processes 5

2.1.1.1Facing 6

2.1.1.2Turning 6

2.1.1.3Parting 6

2.1.1.4Drilling 6

2.1.1.5Boring 7

2.1.1.6Grooving 7

2.1.1.7Threading 7

2.1.2 Cutting Tools 7

2.1.2.1High speed steel 8

2.1.2.2Carbide 8

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2.2 Machining time and cost calculation 9

2.2.2 Machining time calculation 10

2.2.2.1Fixed time elements 10

2.2.2.2Piece related element 11

2.2.3 Cost calculation and estimation 14

2.2.2.1Machining cost 15

2.2.2.2Material and tool cost 16

2.2.2.3Factory overhead 16

2.2.2.4Labor cost. 16

2.2.2.5 Machine amortization 17

2.3 Microsoft Office 17

2.3.1 Microsoft Office Excel 17

2.4 Machining time and cost estimation system 18

3. METHODOLOGY 20

3.1 Identify project title 23

3.2 Project details discussion 23

3.3 Literature review 23

3.4 Define the problem statement, objective, and scope. 24

3.5 Information collection 24

3.5.1 Interviews 24

3.5.2 Observation 25

3.6 Methodology 25

3.7 Software development 25

3.7.1 Analyze current method to calculate the machining time and cost 26

3.7.2 Sorting the relevant element and data input for the software 26 3.7.3 Translate the relevant element and data to Microsoft Excel 2007

(Databases) 26

3.7.4 Develop the software 26

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3.7.6 Result comparison 27

3.8 Completing report and submission 28

4. DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 29

4.1 Software Introduction 29

4.2 Create the main and database sheet 30

4.3 Create machining process sheet 35

4.3.1 Turning process sheet 35

4.3.2 Facing process sheet 37

4.3.3 Drilling process sheet 38

4.3.4 Parting process sheet 39

4.3.5 Boring process sheet 41

4.3.6 Grooving process sheet 42

4.2.7 Threading process sheet 42

4.3 Conditional formatting 44

4.4 Sheet duplication 45

4.5 Cost calculation sheet 45

4.6 Change background colour and add hyperlink 46

4.7 Data and formulation protection development 47

5. RESULT AND ANALYSIS

5.1 Main menu worksheet 49

5.2 Machining process worksheet 50

5.3 Cost calculation worksheet 51

5.4 Testing and verification 52

5.4.1 First test (first example) 52

5.4.2 Second test (second example) 57

5.6 Questionnaire and Comparison analysis 61

6. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 63

6.1Conclusion 63

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vii

REFERENCES 65

APPENDICES

A Gantt charts (PSM1 and PSM2) B Questionnaire

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LIST OF TABLES

4.1 No of sheet 29

4.2 Databases cell command 34

4.3 Turning cell command 36

4.4 Facing cell command 37

4.5 Drilling cell command 39

4.6 Parting cell command 40

4.7 Threading cell command 43

5.1 Questionnaire average score 61

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LIST OF FIGURES

2.1 Depth of cut and feed illustrated for turning operation 13

3.1 Flowchart of the project 21

3.2 Flowchart for development of the software 22

4.1 Main sheet illustrations 31

4.2 Combo box properties and hidden cell 31

4.3 Hidden process design table 32

4.4 Hidden table for processes machining time, process no and tool used 33

4.5 Databases sheet 34

4.6 Turning sheet 35

4.7 Combo box properties and turning sheet hidden cell 36

4.8 Facing process sheets 38

4.9 Drilling operation sheet 38

4.10 Drilling hidden cells 38

4.11 Parting process sheet 39

4.12 Boring operation sheet 41

4.13 Grooving process sheet 42

4.14 Threading process sheet 43

4.15 Threading process sheet hidden cell 43

4.16 Combo box for threading process 44

4.17 Conditional formatting 44

4.18 Cost calculation sheet 45

4.19 Background colour change 46

4.20 Add hyperlinks to system 46

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5.1 Main menu worksheet 49

5.2 Example of machining process sheet (Turning) 50

5.3 Cost calculation worksheet 51

5.4 Stock dimension (Creese, Robert C,1992) 52

5.5 Process design table 53

5.6 First cut parameter 53

5.7 Process design table change 54

5.8 First two pass process parameter 54

5.9 Last two pass parameter 55

5.10 Machining time result 56

5.11 example 2 illustration (M. Adithan, 2007) 56

5.12 Process design for example 2 57

5.13 First process parameter 57

5.14 Second process parameters 58

5.15 Threading process parameters 58

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LIST ABBREVIATIONS

CNC - Computer numerical control Dia - Diameter

NC - Numerical control HSS - High speed steel Rec - Recommended Rev. - Revolution mm - millimeters No. - numbers

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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 will give a brief explanation about this project, starting with the background of the project title, “Development of interactive machining process design and machining time calculation”. This chapter will also discuss about the problem statement, the objectives and the scope and limitation for this project.

1.1 Background

Nowadays, metal machining had become one of the important processes in manufacturing field. As it become important, the company that use metal machining processes need to make a production plan in order determine the acquisition, utilization and allocation of production resources to satisfy customer requirements in the most efficient and effective way. The examples of the important matters for the production planning are the machining time and the machining cost. Machining cost estimation is important and critical in manufacturing industries. There are major differences between what Western and Japanese manufacturing executives expect from cost information and how they utilize it. A manager in Europe or the United States has been known generally to use cost information to make decisions about pricing and investments, while a Japanese manager expects to use cost information to control costs (Tanaka, T. 1993). From the need to calculate the machining cost, there come the machining time calculation as with the machining time and cost per unit time for the processes, the machining cost can be estimated. Machining time and cost can be estimated completely

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after a machining process plan is built. In machining processes, machines, processes, cutting tools and operation sequences are needed to make a process plan. There are many method can be used to calculate the machining time and cost before the production of the certain product started. Normally people calculate the machining time manually and referring to the standard, handbook, and machine manual before starting the production. This project will be made base on the purpose to make the work to calculate the machining time and cost easier for the production planning.

1.2 Problem statement

Machining time and cost calculation for machining process using conventional way is a difficult method to determine the machining time and cost and can be considered as a time consuming. Nowadays, the machining time and cost is calculated using conventional way and sometimes the machining time and cost are estimated based on the experience and not calculated properly. The problems to calculate the machining time and cost using conventional method are;

(1) Time consuming.

(2) There are only few people know the method of calculating the machining time and machining cost that result to the estimation of the machining time and machining cost that are not so accurate.

(3) Since calculating the machining time and machining cost require a lot of reference such as standard, manual, and handbook, it makes this work very troublesome and tedious. The purpose of this research and development is to introduce user friendly software using interactive way of calculating the machining time and machining cost.

In order to solve the problem, this project is to develop software to calculate the machining time and cost of machining process so that the conventional method can be replaced by this software and ultimately make the work easier.

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3 1.3 Objectives

Based on the title “Development of interactive machining process design and machining time calculation”, the objectives to be achieved at the end of this project are as below; (1) To study the conventional method used to calculate machining time and cost (2) To develop a user friendly excel-based software using interactive way to

calculate the machining time and machining cost.

(3) To compare between the conventional method of calculating the machining time and cost with the software made.

1.4 Scope and limitation

This project will develop excel-based software to calculate the machining time and machining cost and the calculation is only limited to lathe machining only. For the machining process selection, this software will only be limited to facing, turning, drilling, parting, grooving, boring and threading. The material that can be chosen using this software will be limited to low carbon, medium carbon, high carbon, aluminium casting and iron casting. For the tool selection, the tool will be limited to high speed steel, carbide and ceramic. The other metal machining process, material and tools will not be included in this software thus will not be covered in this project.

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CHAPTER 2

LITERATURE REVIEW

This chapter will explained about all the elements used for this report. First explanation will come to the machines, processes, cutting tools and operation sequences for lathe machine in order to know the element used to calculate the machining time and cost. After that, the conventional method to calculate the machining time and cost is explained. The computerized system is also explained in this chapter.

2.1 CNC Lathe Machining

Lathe is one of the most versatile and one of the machine tools that have been widely used by people all over the world. Lathe machine is commonly known as the mother of all other machine tool. The main function of a lathe is to remove material from a work piece to produce the required shape and size. The work piece is firmly held in the chuck or in between centers on the lathe machine and then turn it against a single point cutting tool which wi1l remove material from the work piece in the form of chips. (Singh, R., 2006). The engine lathe, one of the most productive machine tools, has always been an efficient means of producing round parts (S. Krar, A. Gill, 1999). Around 1950s, servomechanisms were applied to lathe machine as the lathe machine can be controlled together with other machine tools via numerical control (NC). It is often that the lathe machine was coupled with the computers in order to yield the computerized numerical control (CNC). From year 1970 onwards, new design of machining tools had been

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introduced into machining industry that brought along an effect of greatly reducing the times for tool positioning and movements between cuts. These new CNC design had been designed base directly to the development of numerically controlled (NC) machine tools from 1950s. In CNC machining tools, all the motions are mechanically separated and each different motion are driven by their own motor and coordinated electronically that allow more complicated feed motion can be done. As year 1970 come, the CNC lathe machine has more precise numerical control of feed motion, along with reduction of set-up time than can approximately halving the machine tools non-productive cycle times. In around 1980s, the reduction of non-productive cycle time for lathe machine had becoming more intense as the spread throughout all manufacturing industries of new types of machine tools that have become called turning centers. Nowadays, the manufacturing industries has been equipped with either manually controlled or CNC lathes for their production. The reason why CNC lathe machine had been used widely in manufacturing machining industry is because of the versatility that is the automatic tool changer. The automatic tool changer of lathe machine can change the tools between different machining operations without any user intervention. With this key of versatility, several machining operations can be executed in a single work piece setup. CNC lathe if classified according the axis of rotation can be divided into horizontal CNC lathe and vertical CNC lathe. For this study, it will focus on horizontal CNC lathe however this software is also applicable to the vertical CNC lathe.

2.1.1 Processes

There are plenty of processes that can be done on lathe machine and the processes are facing, turning, drilling, parting, threading, boring and etc. For all the processes, there are some general rules to follow regarding the sequence of machining operation in order to do more than one processes to one product. The details for all the processes will be explained by following the sequence.

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6 2.1.1.1Facing

Facing is the process of removing metal from the end of a work piece to produce a flat surface. Most often, the work piece is cylindrical, but using a 4-jaw chuck you can face rectangular or odd-shaped work to form cubes and other non-cylindrical shapes. (Hoose, F. J., 2000)

2.1.1.2Turning

Turning is the removal of metal from the outer diameter of a rotating cylindrical work piece. Turning is used to reduce the diameter of the work piece, usually to a specified dimension, and to produce a smooth finish on the metal. Often the work piece will be turned so that adjacent sections have different diameters (Hoose, F. J., 2000)

2.1.1.3Parting

Parting uses a blade-like cutting tool plunged directly into the work piece to cut off the work piece at a specific length. It is normally used to remove the finished end of a work piece from the bar stock that is clamped in the chuck. Other uses include things such as cutting the head off a bolt (Hoose, F. J., 2000).

2.1.1.4Drilling

Drilling is the process to drill a hole in an object. A lathe can be used in drilling, only it is more difficult to support the work when it is bulky or heavy (Perrigo, O. E, 1916)

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7 2.1.1.5Boring

Boring is a cutting operation that uses a single-point cutting tool to produce conical and cylindrical surfaces by enlarging an existing opening in a work piece. The cutting tool moves parallel to the axis of rotation (Todd, R. H. et al., 1994).

2.1.1.6Grooving

Groove cutting on CNC lathes is a multi step machining operation. The term grooving usually applies to a process of forming a narrow cavity of a certain depth, on a cylinder, cone, or a face of the part (Smid P., 2003).

2.1.1.7Threading

Threading operations actually involves cutting a helical groove of definite shape or angle, with a uniform advancement for each revolution, either on the surface of a round piece of material, or inside cylindrical hole (Miller R. and Miller M. R., 2004).

2.1.2 Cutting Tools

The selection of proper tooling for the process that wants to be made is important in order to make sure the production is successful. Normally the selection of tools to produce a specific work piece is a responsibility of tool engineer, machining process planner or programmer in case of the NC lathes. It is essential for the person responsible for tools selection to have a clear understand about the process and the material used.

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8 2.1.2.1High speed steel

The advantages of High Speed Steel (HSS) Tool (1) HSS costs less than carbide or ceramic tooling.

(2) HSS is less brittle and not as likely to break during interrupted cuts. (3) The tool can be re-sharpened easily.

Disadvantages of High Speed Steel Tool

(1) HSS does not hold up as well as carbide or ceramic at the high temperatures generated during machining.

(2) HSS does not cut hard materials well.

2.1.2.2Carbide

Advantages of Carbide

(1) Carbide holds up well at elevated temperatures. (2) Carbide can cut hard materials well.

(3) Solid carbide tools absorb work piece vibration and reduce the amount of chatter generated during machining.

(4) When inserted cutters are used, the inserts can be easily changed or indexed, rather than replacing the whole tool.

Disadvantages of Carbide

(1) Carbide costs more than high speed steel.

(2) Carbide is more brittle than HSS and has a tendency to chip during interrupted cuts.

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9 2.1.2.3Ceramic

Advantages of ceramic tooling

(1) Ceramic is sometimes less expensive than carbide when used in insert tooling (2) Ceramic will cut harder materials at a faster rate and has superior heat hardness.

Disadvantages of ceramic tooling

(1) Ceramic is more brittle than HSS or carbide

(2) Ceramic must run within its given surface speed parameters. If run too slowly, the insert will break down quickly.

The microstructures of the material give a tool its required bulk hardness and toughness may not be the best to give the rake and clearance surfaces the best wear resistance. Nowadays, the solution is to use coated tools – their bulk optimized to resist failure and their surfaces coated to resist wear (Child, T. et al, 2000). Coatings should be harder than the coated material themselves, in order to give benefit in resisting abrasive wear, must be more inert to resist chemical wear, and must adhere well to the substrate.

2.2 Machining time and cost calculation

Machining time and cost are important element need to be known in order to make a good production plan. Cost and time estimates are generated for small surface units called primitives using approximated tool paths and process parameters for available factory resources (Roberts, 2000). Cost estimation is one of the important things in the production planning as company can control their production by using the target costing. In order to make the cost estimation, a complete process plan is needed and from there the machining time of the processes can be calculated. The calculation of the machining time for the product or processes is the initial step in determining the machining cost.

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