Program Development for Cost Calculation in Different Hole Drilling Operations
AbstractDrilling operation is one of the most frequently used process in manufacturing industry. Especially in machine manufacturing sector, drilling operations take one third of the total production time. Drilling operation cost a lot, not only because of taking some serious time of total production time, but also because of the drill usage for this process. In this study, the cost comparison of three different methods evaluated for drilling operation in CNC machines. These methods are drilling cycle (G81), high-speed peck drilling cycle (G73) and deep hole peck drilling cycle (G83). The experiments were performed according to the cutting parameters suggested by the cutting tool company and the machining times measured in these three different methods. A novel program coded on Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 C#, which is able to calculate from machine amortization to workmanship, the whole process cost. Process costs can be calculated according to the number of holes in these different methods, through this program. Furthermore, drilling operation costs can be calculated for different cutting parameters too.