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Abstract

As known, all industrial companies from all over the world are aiming at the main objective, as to maximize their profit. In order to reach this objective, companies use certain strategies, principles and techniques. An important strategy regards the optimisation of the available resources, including material, financial, human and informational resources. Companies must also pay an important attention to their technological processes that include certain machining processes for obtaining the products to be delivered to the market place. The present paper is focused on the optimisation of the cutting tool changing regime, which represents an important part of the lead time, in order to make the machining process more efficient. The core of the paper regards the optimisation of multi-tool life and machining parameters so that the time of tool change is diminished. The paper also includes two case studies that refers to drilling process using multi-tool machining.