Advanced materials arenecessary to use industries like aerospace, energy, petrochemical, and biomedical industries. Nickel based steel alloys, advanced ceramics and titanium alloys offer unique combination of heat resistance, corrosion resistance, toughness, high operating temperature, and strength-to-weight ratio. These materials are termed as ‘‘Difficult to do machining materials’’ because of their low machinability rating. Machining of advanced materials causes problems of surface integrity with conventional machining methods. Selection of cutting tool materials is always a challenge for manufacturers to develop good surface finish products. The technology of cutting tools is rapidly improving and this development is necessary to improve the wear resistance and performance of machining on difficult-to-cut materials. Recent developments of new tools, tool geometry and high-speed CNC machines provide better options towards machining advanced materials using conventional machining methods, and setting new prospects for essentially widening the scope of implementation.The CNC conventional end milling machining can be implemented to bring up to acceptable surface quality for advanced materials using recent development of cutting tools and resulting in a significant reduction in grinding process and time. This will greatly reduce the overall machining process cost by minimizing or completely avoiding the cost of grinding without compromising the quality of the product. In this speech, newly developed tools are proposed for machining of advanced ceramics and nickel based alloys to improve the machinability. Also discuss the challenges involved in machining of advanced ceramics and nickel-based alloys.

Dr. Mohan Reddy Moola working as a Head of the Department and Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Curtin University Malaysia. He obtained his PhD (Manufacturing area) from Curtin University and Master Degree (Mechanical Systems, Dynamics and Control) from I.I.T. Kharagpur.He has been involved in teaching, research, and students’ supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate level for the last 24 years. His current research focused on the machining of advanced materials and ceramics.  He has more than 40 publications in reputable international journals and conference proceedings. He is the project leader for couple of funded projects by the Ministry of Higher Education, (MOHE), Malaysia.