1. Notch wear detection in cutting tools using gradient approach and polynomial fitting

   • H. H. Shahabi
   • T. H. Low
   • M. M. Ratnam

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2008 Pages: 1057 - 1066

2. Influence of friction during forming processes—a study using a numerical simulation technique

   • Pradeep L. Menezes
   • K. Kumar
   • Satish V. Kailas

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 February 2008 Pages: 1067 - 1076

3. The effect of die/blank holder and punch radiuses on limit drawing ratio in angular deep-drawing dies

   • Cebeli Özek
   • Muhammet Bal

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 March 2008 Pages: 1077 - 1083

4. On the temperature field during superficial grinding: an experimental study

   • A. Aguiar Vieira
   • A. Monteiro Baptista
   • R. M. Natal Jorge

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 April 2008 Pages: 1084 - 1092

5. Influence of electrical conditions on performance of electrical discharge machining with powder suspended in working oil for titanium carbide deposition process

   • Katsushi Furutani
   • Hiromichi Sato
   • Masayuki Suzuki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 February 2008 Pages: 1093 - 1101

6. Optimisation of multiple responses for WEDM processes using weighted principal components

   • Susanta Kumar Gauri
   • Shankar Chakraborty

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 February 2008 Pages: 1102 - 1110

7. Design and experimental study of a power supply for micro-wire EDM

   • Mu-Tian Yan
   • Tsung-Liang Chiang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2008 Pages: 1111 - 1117

8. A hybridized approach to optimal tolerance synthesis of clutch assembly

   • Erwie Zahara
   • Yi-Tung Kao

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 February 2008 Pages: 1118 - 1124

9. An intelligent sampling method for inspecting free-form surfaces

   • Suleiman M. Obeidat
   • Shivakumar Raman

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 March 2008 Pages: 1125 - 1136

10. Model for surface-roughness parameters determination in a virtual machine shop environment

    • N. Bilalis
    • M. Petousis
    • A. Antoniadis

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 March 2008 Pages: 1137 - 1147

11. In-cycle monitoring of tool nose wear and surface roughness of turned parts using machine vision

    • H. H. Shahabi
    • M. M. Ratnam

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 March 2008 Pages: 1148 - 1157

12. A novel depth-from-focus-based measurement system for the reconstruction of surface morphology with depth discontinuity

    • Gyung Bum Kim
    • Gui Yun Tian

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 March 2008 Pages: 1158 - 1165

13. Roughness modeling and optimization in CNC end milling using response surface method: effect of workpiece material variation

    • B. C. Routara
    • A. Bandyopadhyay
    • P. Sahoo

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 March 2008 Pages: 1166 - 1180

14. Study on LD-VHDL conversion for FPGA-based PLC implementation

    • Daoshan Du
    • Yadong Liu
    • Makoto Fujishima

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2008 Pages: 1181 - 1190

15. Feedrate scheduling strategy for free-form surface machining through an integrated geometric and mechanistic model

    • Liqiang Zhang
    • Jingchun Feng
    • Ming Chen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 March 2008 Pages: 1191 - 1201

16. A bicriteria parallel machine scheduling with a learning effect

    • Tamer Eren
    • Ertan Güner

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2008 Pages: 1202 - 1205

17. A study of lead time variation impact on supply chain performance

    • Jafar Heydari
    • Reza Baradaran Kazemzadeh
    • S. Kamal Chaharsooghi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 February 2008 Pages: 1206 - 1215

18. Bicriteria scheduling of a two-machine flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times

    • S. Afshin Mansouri
    • S. Hamed Hendizadeh
    • Nasser Salmasi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 March 2008 Pages: 1216 - 1226

19. An artificial neural network approach to multiple-response optimization

    • R. Noorossana
    • Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh
    • A. Saghaei

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 03 April 2008 Pages: 1227 - 1238

20. A comprehensive study on the free vibration of machine tools’ hexapod table

    • M. Mahboubkhah
    • M. J. Nategh
    • S. Esmaeilzadeh Khadem

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2008 Pages: 1239 - 1251

21. A band-type network model for the time-series problem used for IC leadframe dam-bar shearing process

    • Zone-Ching Lin
    • Dar-Yuan Chang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 March 2008 Pages: 1252 - 1266