Consumption of Electrical Energy in Turning Operations

Abstract

In times of increased energy consumption, more and more attention is being paid to finding solutions for its saving. In order to cope with serious situations, such as the rising price of energy, global depletion of resources and climate warming, and the improvement of energy efficiency in industries, the need to conserve energy and its sustainability, and to reduce the emission of damaging gases, is an inevitable trend. Energy efficiency remains one of the main issues in the field of machining. Today's machining systems face a number of new challenges, such as turbulent product demand and variations in production resources. Machining systems consisting mainly of machine tools are numerous and used in a wide range of applications in industry, which typically exhibit very low energy efficiency, and as a result, have great potential for energy savings and reduction of environmental emissions. As machine tools are the basic device that consumes energy in manufacturing industries, as an imperative, the need for optimization of input parameters of machines and modeling of energy consumption is imposed, and this creates prerequisites for saving energy in production. This paper investigates energy consumption in the field of turning operations, as one of the main factors in building a sustainable future of machining, depending on the input technological parameters of machining.