• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.355-360
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• 2000

Recently, to be satisfied the consumer's demand the life cycle and the lead time of product is to be shorted. So it is important to reduce the time and cost in manufacturing prototypal mold. These days, in order to reduce the lead time and cost high speed machining is highlighted. In the paper, using the high speed machining and aluminum-7075, the fundamental experiment is implemented in the change of cutting force, machining time, surface characteristic according to the tool path. And then the prototypal mold of the automatic knob is machined.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.124-129
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• 2001

Recently, life cycle and lead-time of products have been shortened with the demand of customers. Therefore, it is important to reduce time and cost at the step of manufacturing trial molds. High speed machining can be applied for this kind of purpose with a lot of practical advantages. In our research, several fundamental experiments are carried out to obtain machining parameters such as cutting force, machining time and surface characteristics for tool paths that are appropriate to high-speed machining. Moreover, a trial mold for an automatic transmission knob is fabricated with aluminum-7075 material. Using automatic set-up equipments, an ABS rapid prototype of a trial product of an AT knob is also manufactured with a filling process.