Conclusion and Outlook
Force controlled honing as a newer approach to the
regulation of the honing process can help to improve the
process stability as the conducted experiments show.
The course of the process force is more constant and the
results for the surface quality show less variation.
The further development of force controlled honing
has the potential to increase the productivity and to
decrease the running-in time for small charges.
Further investigations should take more parts into
account to get a higher statistic background and further
improve the control strategy.