Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Ankur Krishna

Pramod Ramdas Zagade

Bilal Muhammed

Sukhdev Balaji

Arockiam Daniel

Goutham Pathuri

Tool wear monitoring is critical for quality and precision of manufacturing of parts in the machining industry. Existing tool wear monitoring and prediction methods are sensor based, costly and pose challenge in ease of implementation. Embodiments herein provide method and system for monitoring tool wear to estimate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of a tool in machining is disclosed. The method provides a tool wear model, which combines tool wear physics with data fitting, capture practical considerations of a machining system, which makes the tool wear prediction and estimated RUL more stable, reliable and robust. Further, provides cost effective and practical solution. The disclosed physics based tool wear model for RUL estimation captures privilege of physics of tool wear and easily accessible data from CNC machine to monitor and predict tool wear and RUL of the tool in real-time.

Method and system for monitoring tool wear to estimate RUL of tool in machining

A framework for assessing technical feasibility of additive manufacturing of an engineering design. This framework needs to be based on preliminary identification of key parameters that influence the decision making process. The parameters may also be customized for a particular application. Each of these parameters can be assigned weightage either relative or arrived at by paired comparison using a pre-determined minimum point method. Each of the attributes are then assigned scores which are then multiplied by the weightages assigned. The summation of all such scores on a weighted average basis indicates the potential for 3D printing of that part or assembly. It offers to select the right part to leverage the benefit of additive manufacturing. It narrows down on the ideal manufacturing process for the qualified parts and proposes to reduce subjectivity by using paired comparison of attributes. It also provides a faster assessment of technical aspects of the design.

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