OPTIMIZATION OF CNC TURNING PARAMETERS FOR AL-6061 USING RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY

As per present manufacturing scenario, focus of all manufacturing organizations is to produce good quality product with a minimum cost. CNC turning process is the most common machining process that is used in now days. Present work has been done to optimize the machining parameters for material AL 6061 like depth of cut, feed rate and cutting speed. As per the requirements of the manufacturing sector there is huge application of AL6061. Therefore it becomes necessary to optimize the various machining parameters of AL6061.In present work CNC Turning parameters has been optimized for AL 6061 using Response surface Method (RSM). Initially after selecting the parameters and their levels individually a RSM matrix has been prepared. After words experiments were performed as per RSM matrix. Material removal rate and surface roughness was recorded as per the defined set of experiments of matrix. Afterwards significance of individual parameters like Speed, feed and depth of cut has been noticed at 95% confidence level by applying regression tests. Further the optimized results have been verified using One Way ANOVA. MINITAB 16 software is used for the formulating the matrix and for the analysis of regression and response surface methodology.