A novel machining of multi irregular surface using improved noncircular turning method

The backplane processing is an important part of the manufacture of electronic communication equipment; the current processing of backplane surface, especially the rough machining, is still using milling; and the production efficiency is quite low. This paper presents a new method to turn with a cylinder for the rough machining of multi backplane surfaces, which is based on a conventional horizontal lathe and uses the improved method of noncircular machining. The performance requirements of fast tool servo (FTS) device and control model for the machining of noncircular surface are analyzed firstly; the position following control strategy is used instead of traditional position interpolation, according to the multi backplane surfaces machining technology and control strategy; and a novel algorithm, which is combined UG (Unigraphics NX) software surface fitting with cubic spline curve fitting of multi backplanes’ space, is proposed for computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software design. Finally, the proposed processing method and CAM model algorithm are proved to be effective through the simulation and actual verifications, the products meet the processing requirements and the processing time of each piece is reduced from 8 to 2 min, and they also greatly improve the production automation and achieve energy saving and emission reduction.