Comparison of Power and Energy Consumption for Hard Turning and Burnishing Operations of 41CR4 Steel

This paper presents a new power measurement system which allows recording the power consumption profile and determining its components related to all the controlled axes. The system is based on computer processing of signals generated by current and voltage sensors connected to spindle and axis driving electric motors. It should be noted that these motors are controlled independently with different frequencies and voltages. By using LabVIEW data acquisition system, it is possible to record total power consumption and its components during a typical machining operation. This study concerns the power consumption in a sequence machining process consisting of hard turning and ball burnishing operations under variable machining conditions.