Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center: Productivity Science and Engineering of Machining

Friday, July 26, 2024

Productivity Science and Engineering of Machining - Further Developments After F.W. Taylor

1954 - TLUSTY PUBLISHES CHATTER THEORY

Dr. Jiri Tlusty of VUOSO-Prague develops Theory of Self-Excited Vibrations

1971 - MACHINE TOOL STRUCTURES

Tlusty publishes book on Machine Tool Structures

1985 - MACHINE TOOL RESEARCH CENTER (MTRC)

Tlusty founds MTRC at the University of Florida

1987 - MLI FOUNDED

Manufacturing Laboratories, Inc. (MLI) was started in 1987 by Jiri Tlusty, Scott Smith and Tom Delio in Gainesville, Florida

1990 - PTP GRAPHS

Introduction of unique PTP graphs for chatter evaluation and generation of lobing diagram

1991 - CPA

Phase II Air Force Spindle award results in development of first comprehensive Cutting Performance Analyzer (CPA) DOS Based.

1992 - CRAC

First commercially installed Chatter vibration monitoring and AVOIDANCE package delivered to Makino customer (trademark CRAC for Chatter Avoidance and recognition system)

1992 - MTDA

CPA renamed MTDA and marketed to OEM manufacturers

1992 - SPA AND MILSIM

Spindle Analysis (SPA) Package and Milling Simulation (MilSim) packages delivered to automotive customers.

1996 - METALMAX AND HARMONIZER

Overall redesign of MTDA system to Windows platform. Renamed MetalMAX. System contains PC based CRAC system called Harmonizer®

1997 - PROACC

PROACC Service begun for delivering consulting based services using the MetalMAX system

1998 - SIM MODULE

State of the Art signal interface module (SIM) developed for MetalMAX product

1999 - MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AND EQUIPMENT

Tlusty publishes Manufacturing Processes and Equipment

2001 - CHIPS

ProACC renamed CHiPS service after CHiPS dynamic tool management system

2001 - AMRC

MLI founding partner of the Advanaced Manufacuring Research Center (AMRC) in Sheffield, England

1991 - CPA

Phase II Air Force Spindle award results in development of first comprehensive Cutting Performance Analyzer (CPA) DOS Based.

2002 - BLUESWARF

Delio, Smith and Barton found BlueSwarf to commercialized MLI technologies

2003 - NCDMM

Tom Delio is founding partner of National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM)

2004 - MLI FEATURED AT IMTS

MLI selected to present at the GE Emerging Technologies exhibit at IMTS

2008 - BOEING SELECTS MLI FOR IMTS

MLI chosen by Boeing to exhibit in their Advanced Manufacturing Center at IMTS

2008 - MACHINING DYNAMICS

Smith and Schmitz publish Machining Dynamics - Frequency Response to Improved Productivity.

Machining Dynamics: Frequency Response to Improved Productivity

Tony L. Schmitz, K. Scott Smith

Springer Science & Business Media, 27 Nov 2008 - Technology & Engineering - 304 pages

"Machining dynamics: Frequency response to improved productivity" will train engineers and students in the practical application of machining dynamics, with a particular focus on milling. The book is arranged such that the steps required to improve machining productivity through chatter avoidance and reduced surface location error (forced vibrations resulting in part geometric errors) are clearly evident.

The following topics are covered in detail: modal analysis, including experimental methods, to obtain the tool point frequency response function; descriptions of turning and milling, including force modeling, time domain simulation, stability lobe diagram algorithms, and surface location error calculation for milling; and receptance coupling methods for tool point frequency response prediction, including beam theory. Numerical examples are included, as well as the MATLAB code used to develop the figures.

https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Machining_Dynamics.html?id=Z5sOmpX2KxQC

2019 Edition

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-93707-6

2016 - SMARTTOOL

Delio and Barton on team developing SmartTool for Okuma.

Velocity Products - Okuma Intelligent Tooling

November 1, 2016

Designed exclusively for Okuma machining centers, Velocity SMART Tools are fully assembled, balanced, preset and ready to run. The tool allows machining at maximum speeds, feeds and cutting depths for a specific operation or part on an Okuma machine tool.

The group of partnering companies responsible for bringing Velocity SMART Tool to market believe that this new product doubles tool life, allows for double the cutting speed and can reduce overall costs by half.

From BlueSwarf, co-founders and inventors, Dr. Tom Delio and Dave Barton, were present at IMTS 2016 to introduce the product to users.

https://www.mfgnewsweb.com/archives/4/47859/Current-News-nov16/Velocity-Products-Introduces-Intelligent-Tooling.aspx

2018 - SPEEDCAST™

MLI develops AI-powered SpeedCast automated Dashboards

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