Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2014
This paper presents a joint use of the T2 chart and total inertial tolerancingfor process control. Here, we will show an application of these approaches in the case ofthe machining of mechanical workpieces using a cutting tool. When a cutting tool inmachining impacts different manufactured dimensions of the workpiece, there is acorrelation between these parameters when the cutting tool has maladjustment due to badsettings. Thanks to total inertial steering, the correlation structure is known. Thispaper shows how T2 charts allow one to take thiscorrelation into account when detecting the maladjustment of the cutting tool. Then thetotal inertial steering approach allows one to calculate the value of tool offsets inorder to correct this maladjustment. We will present this approach using a simpletheoretical example for ease of explanation.