A GEOMETRIC PROGRAMMING BASED MODEL FOR COST MINIMIZATION OF TURNING PROCESS WITH EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION

The profit of any manufacturing unit is dependent on how much the firm can cut on its production cost. So, for increasing the profit, the production cost has to minimize. The production cost of turning process is dependent on the cutting parameters including the cutting speed, the feed rate and the depth of cut. If these parameters are set to the optimal level, then, the overall cost of the operation can be minimized. In this research paper, a geometric programming based approach to minimize the cost of the turning process is proposed. A mathematical model was developed depicting the production cost in terms of cutting parameters including cutting speed and feed rate with in some operating constraints. The results of the experimental validation of the model show that the proposed method provides a systematic, easy, effective and efficient technique to obtain the minimum production cost of turning process.