rwitharelativelylowstandbypowerdemandwhencomparedtolargemachiningcenters.Therefore,thecuttingpowercancomprisealargeportionofthemachinetool’stotalpowerdemand.Energyconsumptionforhightaremachinetoolswasfoundtobeprimarilydependentontheprocessingtimeofthepart,whichisdictatedbythepartgeometry,toolpath,andmaterialremovalrate.Onesuchmethodforoptimizingthetoolpathforminimumcycletimewaspresentedin[].Thispaperisconcernedwiththeeffectofthematerialremovalrateonenergyconsumption.Thematerialremovalratefora-axismachiningcentercanbevariedbychangingthefeedrate,widthofcut,ordepthofcut.Sinceincreasingthefeedratewasfoundtohavedireconsequencesonthecuttingtoollife[],theexperimentsconductedhereinvariedmaterialremovalratethroughwidthofcutanddepthofcutexperimentsforthepurposeofanalyzingthematerialremovalrate’seffectoncuttingpowerandmoreimportantly,energyconsumption.文用于分析机床是微型加工中心。
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