This article describes an optimization of dressing parameters to improve the wheel life in surface grinding of hardened SKD 11 steel by using the Taguchi method. Dressing parameters including dressing feed rate, coarse dressing depth, coarse dressing times, fine dressing depth, fine dressing times, and non-feeding dressing were investigated to determine their influence on the wheel life. The DOE method developed by G. Taguchi was selected to design the experiments. An analysis of the signal-to-noise (S/N) response and ANOVA were conducted to obtain the optimal values of dressing parameters for maximizing the wheel life. In the results section, the coarse dressing times and the coarse dressing depth are determined to be the most influential factors which give a statistically significant effect on wheel life. Also, a predictive value of the average wheel life is given with a 3.6% deviation from the verification experiment.
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