Contemporary challenges in tool condition monitoring

Implementation of robust, reliable tool condition monitoring (TCM) systems in one of the preconditions of introducing of Industry 4.0. While there are a huge number of publications on the subject, most of them concern new, sophisticated methods of signal feature extraction and AI based methods of signal feature integration into tool condition information. Some aspects of TCM algorithms, namely signal segmentation, selection of useful signal features, laboratory measured tool wear as reference value of tool condition – are nowadays main obstacles in the broad applicationof TCM systems in the industry. These aspects are discussed in the paper, and some solutions of the problems are proposed.