An approach to health assessment for tools in milling machine

Tool health is identified as the most significant index of the machining process, which directly influences the surface quality of work-piece. An online health monitoring for tools has become more crucial in manufacturing industries. In this study, a health assessment approach for tools in milling machine is presented. First, the vibration signal of tools is decomposed into a finite number of components called intrinsic mode function (IMF) by the empirical mode decomposition (EMD), which are regarded as the initial feature vector matrices. Second, Singular value decomposition (SVD) is used to extract the singular values of the matrices, which forms the feature vector for health assessment. Third, a Self-organizing mapping (SOM) network is introduced to map the extracted feature vectors into Minimum Quantization Error (MQE), and the Taguchi system is then employed to reduce the redundant features. Finally, the MQE is normalized into a confidence value (CV), representing the health status of the tools. A case study demonstrates that the proposed approach can effectively realize the health assessment for tools in milling machine by monitoring of the vibration signals.

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