TAGUCHI METHOD OPTIMIZATION OF THE TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION DURING CHIPBOARD CUTTING WITH THE PANEL SAW MACHINE

This work presents Taguchi method used in order to optimize overall power consumption of panel saw machine Holzma HPP 300 during sawing of laminated particleboards. Single boards and gathered in package of two and three sheets with thickness 18 mm were cut. There were used three feed speeds, namely: 50, 100 and 120 m/min. Influence of two factors (amount of sheets machined in one cycle and feed speed) on overall power consumption during cutting. Moreover, optimum values of this parameters within analyzed parameter range were pointed out. Feed speed turned out not to be important regards to overall power consumption during machining at all. However, amount of boards in package sawed in one cycle was in great importance.