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CIRP

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CIRP

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· Director of Research

VUOSO

· Founder

Laboratory for Machine Tools

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CIRP

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Society of Manufacturing Engineers

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One SME Drive
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North American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME

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1. 1. www.aspe.net

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Robert R. Donaldson | Paul Forman | Robert S. Hahn | Horst Kunzmann | Sol Laufer | Patrick A. McKeown | George Tlusty | David J. Whitehouse | David H. Youden | Carl A. Zanoni | ASPE Awards
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GEORGE TLUSTY

Professor George Tlusty has had a long and distinguished career as a metrologist and designer of machine tools. Beginning in Czechoslovakia in 1941, Professor Tlusty was actively involved in research on machine tool metrology. In 1959 he wrote a paper on machine tool testing that included a powerful new method for testing the Axes of Rotation errors of milling machine spindles. It uses an accurate ball attached eccentrically to the spindle with two electronic pick-ups indicating the movement of the ball in two perpendicular directions with respect to the table. When these signals are displayed on the X and Y axes of an oscilloscope, a circular pattern is created. The non-roundness of this pattern is a measure of the spindle rotational accuracy at any spindle speed. We now refer to this procedure as the Tlusty Method.

Professor Tlusty is credited with much of the research on the causes of machine tool chatter. His publications on chatter date from 1954. He was one of the first to realize the critical relationship between dynamic stiffness and chatter. This work has been pivotal to the recent development in high-speed machining. He is considered one of the pioneers in this field.

Professor Tlusty was director of research at VUOSO in Prague in 1963. He was the founder of the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Robots at McMaster University in Canada, and is presently the Director of the Machine Tool Research Center at the University of Florida. He is a founding member of the North American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME. He became a member of CIRP in 1957 and served as its President in 1968. He is a Fellow Member of ASME, and SME. He is fluent in six languages. Many of his students are now as famous as George.

His book, Structures of Machine Tools, published in 1971, is widely regarded as a classic. His new book, Manufacturing Processes and Equipment, 1999, will undoubtedly become a classic.

In 1972, while at McMaster University, George acquired one of the new Hewlett-Packard laser interferometers and carried out innovative measurements on the accuracy of large numerically controlled machine tools. This work is very well documented in the Ph.D. Thesis of Dr. Gordon Mutch, "The Accuracy of Numerically Controlled Machine Tools," published at McMaster in 1975.

At the age of 74, George started his own machine tool company, Manufacturing Laboratories, Inc.

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4. 4. American Machinist - Sensors Spawn Spindle Standard

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Dr. George Tlusty, a pioneer in machine tool measurement and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Florida once said "a person can't talk about accuracy if they don't have a way to measure it."

5. 5. Sensors Spawn Spindle Standard :: American Machinist

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Published on: 8/18/2005   Last Visited: 8/18/2005

Dr. George Tlusty, a pioneer in machine tool measurement and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Florida once said "a person can't talk about accuracy if they don't have a way to measure it."