Abstract:

The experimental work was carried out by taking Phosphor Bronze as work material. Speed,
feed and depth of cut were taken as input parameters in three levels and these parameters were
optimized for surface finish and MRR. Increase in productivity is possible by compromising in
quality loss as a result of reduced machining time. An improvement in quality, on the contrary, leads to
an increase in machining time, thus decreasing productivity. It is very interesting and difficult to
comprehend correlation between quality and productivity. In any machining process, two essential but
contradictory criteria are quality and productivity. Optimizing quality and productivity at the same
time is therefore important. In the machining process, productivity can be interpreted in terms of the
rate of material removal and quality represents a satisfactory yield in terms of product characteristics
as required by customers. One of the important customer requirement is surface quality and Surface
roughness is the key measure of surface quality in machined components. In the proposed research
work, material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness of the product prepared by the CNC end
milling operation are experimentally analysed and the findings obtained are analytically interpreted. To
analyse the effect of milling parameters on these responses, Signal-to- Noise (S/N) ratio and Analysis
of Variance (ANOVA) are employed. This study is used to correlate and suggest the optimal set of
input parameters