Effect of feeding and depth of cut on surface roughness in truing and dressing process using cylindrical grinding machine

The automotive industries leaned toward a decentralized approach since the booming of the products in the last century. The leading among them has the principal mostly in the growth countries and the plant mostly in developed ones. However, there is a technological gap between the principal and the plants. So, the problem arises when some processes could not be in the plant. In order to narrow that gap, the study conducted about the maintenance in the honing process. Honing is one type of finishing to ensure the surface quality of the product. The process categorized into subtract ive manufacturing. The distinct characteristic of subtractive manufacturing is the cutting tool. The quality of the tool has to be better than its working piece. In other words, in the case of honing the surface roughness and the form of the tool has to be controlled tightly. In this study, the honing tool was corrected by truing and dressing. Truing and dressing are done simultaneously by grind the honing tool using a cylindrical grinding machine. Parameters dominant in the truing and dressing process are feeding and depth of cut. The processes tried by varying ten feeding value and four depth of cut value. From those parameter variations, the roughness then measured. It infers that the bigger the feeding, the roughness is getting coarser.