ME6402 Manufacturing Technology II

Part-A 2 Mark Questions

Unit-I

1. How do you classify tool wear? (Or) Classify the tool wear. Name the different types of tool
wear.***
2. Name any two reasons for flank wear in cutting tools.
3. Write short notes on flank wear and crater wear of a single point cutting tool?
4. What is electro chemical wear in tools?
5. Define Tool Life. ***
6. How tool life is estimated?**
7. The useful tool life of an HSS tool, machining mild steel at 25 m/min is 5 hours. Calculate the tool
life when tool life when the tool operates at 40 m/min.
8. If the Taylors tool life constants for a given operation are specified as n= 0.5 and C = 400, what is
the percentage increase in tool life when the cutting speed is reduced by half?
9. In an experiemnt on orthogonal cutting, a chip length of 85 mm was obtained form an uncut chip
length of 202 mm while cutting with a tool of 20° rake angle using a depth of cut of 0.5 mm.
Determine the shear palne angle.
10. During orthogonal machining with a cutting tool having a 10 deg. Positive rake angle, the chip
thickness is measured to be 0.4 mm for a depth of cut of 0.2 mm. Determine the shear plane angle.
11. Draw a neat sketch of a single point cutting tool and indicate various angles.
12. State any two situations where positive rake angle is recommended during turning.
13. When will be the negative rake angles be used?
14. How does rake angle affect the life of the cutting tool? (or) Briefly explain the effect of rake angle
during cutting. **
15. What is rake angle?
16. What is the effect of nose radius in tools?
17. Classify the types of metal cutting process.
18. Compare Orthogonal and oblique cutting. (or) State any two differences between orthogonal and
oblique cutting.*******
19. What are the main requirements of cutting tool materials?
20. What are the advantages of diamond tools?
21. Write short notes on any two modern tool materials.
22. Name the various cutting tools.
23. List the various types of chips formed during the metal cutting process.
24. What is meant by built up edge (BUE)?****
25. Mention the condition that induces the formation of Built up edge.
26. What are the conditions that would allow a continuous chip to be formed in metal cutting?
27. How can Built up egde formed during machining be avoided?
28. What are the factors responsible for Built up edge in cutting tools?
29. Write short notes on Heat zones in cutting.
30. How is metal removed in metal cutting?
31. List the characteristics of cutting fluid. (or) List the four important functions of cutting fluid in the
metal machining. (or) Write the importance of cutting fluids. (or) What are the objectives and
functions of cutting fluids? *****
32. Classify the types of cutting fluids.
33. Write a short notes on Machinability.
34. Define the term machinability and machinability index.
35. What do you understand by cutting tool signature?
36. What is orthogonal rake system?
37. Why is lubrication not required while machining cast iron?

Unit-II

1. Distinguish between Capstan lathe from Turret Lathe.**

2. What are the differences between automatic lathe and capstan lathe?***
3. Differentiate between an automatic lathe and a semiautomatic lathe.
4. State the different methods of taper turning. List any four methods by which taper turning is done in
a centre lathe. List the different taper turing methods. Name the methods of taper turning on
lathe.*****
5. Write down the formula for calculating taper turning angle by compound rest method.
6. Explain the following parts of a lathe: (a) Lathe bed; (b) Carriage.
7. What is an Apron? What is the function of “apron” of a lathe? ***
8. State the various parts mounted on the carriages.
9. What are the principle parts of lathe?
10. List out the various types of lathe.
11. Mention four different types of chucks used in a machine shop.
12. What is the use of mandrels?
13. Draw a neat sketch of “Geneva mechanism” used in turret lathes for automatic indexing.
14. Mention any two limitations of a centre lathe. What are the limitations of centre lathe when
compared to automatic lathes?**
15. State the purpose of providing lead cam in single spindle automatic screw cutting machine.
16. What is a centre gauge that is used in threading?
17. How thread chased in a lathe?
18. What is the need of automatic lathes? What are the advantages of automatic lathes?**
19. What are the types of single spindle automatic lathes?
20. What are programmed automatic lathes?
21. List the three most commonly employed types of single spindle automatics.
22. How are automatic lathes classified?
23. What do you meant by copy turning?
24. Name the specifications of a centre lathe.**
25. Give the specifications of a lathe. How do you specify a lathe? How do specify lathe size?***
26. How is the size of a turret lathe specified?
27. Give a sketch illustrating the principle of operation of Swiss type automatic lathe.
28. What is meant by “Swing of the lathe”?
29. Why is hollow spindle used in lathe?
30. What is the purpose of tumbler gear mechanism of a lathe? State the need for tumbler gear
mechanism. **
31. State the various feed mechanisms used for obtaining automatic feed.
32. State the functions of back gear.
33. What is the mechanism applied in hexagonal turret for indexing purposes?

Unit- III & IV

1. How do you classify milling cutters?

2. Define cutting speed, feed and machining time for drilling.
3. What is the difference between up milling and down milling?*******
4. What is deep hole drilling? State its applictaions?
5. What is climb milling? Mention its advantgae.
6. How are shaping machines specified? mention any four shaper specification. ***
7. What is the difference between a plain milling machine and an universal milling machine?
8. Draw the nomenclature of a standard drill. Sketch the nomenclature of a drill bit. ****
9. State the uses of Planner.
10. Give the functions of flutes on taps.
11. What is a Reamer?
12. What is straddle milling?
13. What do you mean by differential indexing?
14. Why is milling a versatile machining process?
15. Why gear finishing is required?
16. What is gear finishing? Why it is done?**
17. Make a comparison between gear shaping and gear hobbing.
18. Why reaming operation is performed?
19. How are work pieces held in a shaper?
20. Whata re the various types of end mills used in milling?
21. Mention the difference between shaper and planer.**
22. List out the situation where reaming operation is required.
23. What is the differene between face milling and end milling?
24. What do you know about straight fluted drill and fluted drill?
25. One of the index plate of Brown and Sharp milling machine has the following hole circles : 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20. How much the index crank of the dividing head has to be rotated to mill each
tooth of a spur gear of 24 teeth using suitable hole circle?
26. What do you understand by Gang Milling?
27. What are the essential characteristics required in milling cutters?
28. State the applications of honing and lapping finishing methods.
29. Compare gear forming with gear generation methods.
30. Define Broaching. What is braoching?***
31. List any four applictaions of braoching machines.
32. State two major disadvantages of broaching.
33. List some of the materials of braoching tools.
34. Write the advantages of broaching.
35. Define hardness of the grinding wheel.
36. Define lapping.
37. What is meant by “grade” and structure” of a grinding wheel?
38. What are the types of surface grinders?
39. Mention any two advantages of gear hobbing.
40. Name two artificial abrasive materials.**
41. Distinguish between polishing and buffing processes.
42. State the differences between turning and dressing of a grinding wheel. How does wheel dressing
differ from wheel truing?
43. Name the process parameters involved in the lapping process.
44. How is the grinding wheel designated?
45. List the gear generating process.
46. What are grinding points? Sketch the various grinding points?
47. What is a tool post grinder?
48. What are natural and artificial abrasives?
49. List the factors involved in the selection of a grinding wheel.
50. What is the principle of a broaching process?
51. How does loading differ from glazing in grinding process?
52. What are the principal types of Broaching machines?
53. How do you specify a grinding wheel?
54. What are the three methods of external cylindrical centreless grinding?
55. What are the advantages and limitations of using centreless grinding?
56. Define Grinding ratio.**
57. Why broaching process is long and laborious?
58. How does grinding different from other machining operations?
59. What is the difference between forming and generation of gears with respect to the principle?
60. Compare and contrast the gear generation process with gear forming process.
61. Differentiate between push and pull broaching.
62. Define buffing process.
63. Mention any four important factors that influences the selection of grinding wheels.
64. What is roller burnishing process?
65. What is meant by dressing and truing of grinding wheels?**
66. How is a broaching machines specified?
67. State the limitations of broaching.
68. A grinding wheel is specified by A 24 K 7 V. What does each letter indicates?
69. What do you meant by duplex broach?
70. Define the terms „Glazing‟ and „loading‟ with respect to grinding wheels.
71. What is need of honing process? Give a typical example for a component requiring honing.***
72. What are the various types of gear generating process?
73. How do you specify a grinding wheel?

Unit V

1. State the limitations of CNC machine tools.

2. What is a „Canned cycle‟?
3. What are the types of motion control system used in NC machines?
4. What is mean by APT language?
5. Compare a closed loop NC system with open loop NC system.**
6. What is a preparatory function? How is it important in CNC programming?**
7. Distinguish between point to point and continuous path systems.
8. What do you meant by machining centre w.r.t NC machines?
9. What is meant by „tool magazine‟ in a CNC machine?
10. What is the function of a subroutine in NC part programming?
11. A stepping motor of 200 steps per revolution is mounted on the lead screw of a NC machine table.
the pitch of the screw is 2.5 mm/rev. If the stepping motor receives pulses at a frequency of 2000
Hz, what is the linear speed of the table?
12. With reference to CNC manual part programming, state what is linear interpolation?
13. What is meant by numeric control? State their advantages.
14. State the differences between CNC and DNC.
15. Mention the advantages of stepper motor.
16. Define subroutine.**
17. List the main elements of a NC machine tool.
18. What do you understand by „canned cycle‟ in manual part programming?
19. List the advantages of CNC machines.
20. State any four motion control statements used in APT.
21. How are various functions timed in NC machines?
22. Distinguish a fixed zero and floating zero in CNC terminology.***
23. Define CNC and DNC.
24. What is adaptive control?
25. State the functions of the following G and M codes:
26. G00 G03 M06 M03
27. State the functions of the following G and M codes:
28. G01 G04 M04 M30
29. Define micromachining with the help of an example.
30. Compare bulk and surface micro machining processes.
31. What are G codes and M codes?
32. State the limitations of CNC machine tools.
33. Write short notes on point to point interpolation system.
34. Define NC.
35. Mention the major elelmnts of NC machines.
36. State the applications of Numerical control machine tools.
37. What is maching centers?
38. Distinguish point to point and continuous path CNC control.
39. What is a machining center? How it differs from conventional CNC milling machine?
40. What is meant by canned cycle? List any 4 types of canned cycle machining.
41. Briefly state about the co-ordinate axis nomenclature of a modern CNC milling machine.
42. What is the need for micromachining? Mention the four categories of micromachining techniques.
43. State any four advantages of NC machines.
44. List down the special features in a numerical control machine tools.
45. Define interpolation.