Patent ID: 9720399
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B24C,B64C,B64D,F16M,G03B,G05B,G06F,Y02P

Claim:
1. A computer-readable medium not constituting transitory propagating signals per se, whose contents are adapted to cause a computing system to perform a method for selecting cutting test observations, the method comprising: receiving a request identifying a material; accessing a cutting test repository containing information about each of a plurality of performed cutting tests, the repository containing, for each of the plurality of cutting tests, (1) information identifying a material used in each of the plurality of cutting tests, and (2) information specifying a measurement produced by the cutting test; based on the material identified by the request and the information contained by the cutting test repository identifying the material used in each of the plurality of cutting tests, selecting a proper subset of the plurality of cutting teats in response to the request, wherein the identification of a material by both the request and by the information in the repository is at least in part by specifying a material machinability index value, and wherein the selecting process selects cutting tests whose material machinability index values are within a certain range of the machinability index value of the material identified by the request; and causing cutting of a part based at least in part on the information identifying a material and the information specifying a measurement of the selected subset of the plurality of cutting tests.