Developments and Trends in Monitoring and Control of Machining Processes

corresponding equipment, software and strategies are considered as well as the reasons for the limited success of some of the existing systems in use. Furtnermore, the requirements of future monitoring and ccntrol systems are worked out. Therefore a systematic analysis of present and future sytems and their components is made. Finally, the function of machining process planning and its influence on the performance and the reliability of the process is discussed.