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The paper investigates the thermal regime when grinding largerubber parts that are used like coat for rollers in paper industry. In order to analyse the variation of workpiece temperature when finishing grinding of the rollers rubber coat a full factorial design of experiments was used considering the cutting parameters as independent variables. The proper selection of cutting conditions for the grinding of large rubber rolls should take into consideration the thermal regime and the workpiece temperature variation because it is well known that this material is extremely sensitive to high temperature exposure and that build-up of rubber on the face of the grinding wheel may occur. In the experiments, abundant flow of cutting fluids is used.

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The article presents the research performed by the authors in the field of robotic machining with self-driven tools, focusing on low power deburring operations performed by six degrees of freedom articulated arm robots. The works include layout development, modeling and simulation of a flexible manufacturing cell for machining operations. The research presented in this article is focused on two main goals: first, to show and evaluate the influence of trajectory target points coordinates (determined by the workpiece installation position) on machining parameters and force/torque values in each robot's joint; and second, to elaborate the mathematical model of the robot arm in order to use it in future research as an intermediate stage of comparison between the theoretical model used in virtual environment simulations and the real robotic arm structure and behaviour in experimental operations.