Characterising energy efficiency in maching processes: A milling case

With the development of the energy costs and government legislation for sustainability round the world, manufacturing industry has been forced to apply sustainable machining to production to reduce energy consumption. Therefore, energy efficient and optimal activities must be performed to reduce energy consumption. As we know, the energy-consumption model is the core to achieve this goal. The present paper proposes an empirical power consumption model of milling processes based on experiments. According to the experimental results, it comes to the conclusion that the new model performs more accurate and efficient than the main existing models for given cutting parameters. Additional investigations are applied to analysis the influences of cutting parameters on power consumption by ANOVA.