Recently, technical trend in machine tools is focused on enhancing of speed and accuracy. The high speed usually causes thermal displacement and structural deformation of objects of the machine tool. To minimize thermal effect, machine tools adopt oil...
Recently, technical trend in machine tools is focused on enhancing of speed and accuracy. The high speed usually causes thermal displacement and structural deformation of objects of the machine tool. To minimize thermal effect, machine tools adopt oil coolers with precise temperature control function. This study aims at precise control of oil outlet temperature in the oil coolers with hot-gas bypass based on PI control logic. The control system was designed for obtaining steady state error within ±0.2°C even though abrupt disturbances are added. We showed that the gain of PI could be easily determined by using gain-tuning method without any numerical model. Through some experiments, excellent control performance was established by a simple PI controller.