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Abrasive Water jet (AWJ) Machining is a recent non-traditional machiningprocess. Major part of this technology is a very high-pressure beam of water and abrasives,which is used for machining. Abrasive water jet cutting of material involves the effect of ahigh pressure velocity jet of water with entrained abrasive particles on to material to becut. This technology is widely used in industry for cutting difficult-to-machine materials,milling slots, polishing hard materials, cleaning contaminated surfaces, etc. In the presentstudy commercially three different materials AL-6351 is machined with the abrasive waterjet machine. Experimental investigations should conduct to assess the influences ofAbrasive water jet machining (AWJM) process parameter on surface roughness. Theapproach is based on Taguchi’s method to optimize the AWJM process parameter foreffective machining. It was found the process parameters are stand-off-distance from thework surface; work feed rate, jet pressure Abrasive type are effective to evaluate criteria ofthe work surface roughness. The Experiment will be conducted at “SUNCOREENGINEERING INDIA” Manjusar G.I.D.C Vadodara. AL-6351 is select as work piecematerial and will be machined under abrasive water jet machine model DWJ 2030-FB.Theeffect of various parameters as Traverse Speed, Abrasive flow rate, and standoff distance willbe checked on output parameter like surface roughness measured by Surface RoughnessTester TR100. The Taguchi method will be used for designing the experiment and optimumresult can be achieved through ANOVA and Compare it With Minitab 16 at the end.

Chirag M Parmar, Mr. Pratik K Yogi, Mr. Trilok D Parmar, “Optimization of Abrasive Water Jet Machine Process Parameter for AL-6351 using Taguchi Method”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 1, Issue 5, pp. 74-81, May 2014.