Date of Publication :7th December 2016

Abstract: In the constantly changing manufacturing world, passion for metal cutting is crucial to stay ahead. Cutting tools are often designed with inserts or replaceable tips (tipped tools). In these, the cutting edge consists of a separate piece o f material, brazed, welded or clamped on to the tool body. They are usually indexable and low cost. This saves time in manufacturing by allowing fresh cutting edges to be presented periodically without the need for tool grinding, setup changes and without changing the programs. Different tool inserts are used for various applications and could be of various shapes like diamond, square, hexagon, triangle, round, octagon, etc. The incoming tool inserts could be sorted based on various shapes, dimensional accuracy, orientation and that if they are used or unused tool inserts. The sorting process consists of use of Image processing to grab the image of the inserts and then processing it through MATLAB software. The software will process the image for above said parameters and results would be generated on screen. A complete database for a given tool insert will also be generated and be available to the user whenever required and then the inserts would be placed in the respective bins. This paper presents a review on need of sorting tool inserts, various methods used for the same and methodology used for the automated sorting of tool inserts

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