In today’s manufacturing industries, the demand for light non-ferrous materials is considerable due to the need to improve productivity and manufacturability. Since the surface roughness of a material is important for improving the functionality of machined parts, various techniques for surface treatments have been developed to obtain non-ferrous materials with low roughness. A superfinishing method utilizing polishing films is generally applied to the anodized surface of Al7075 in order to improve its roughness. The objective of this research is to determine through experiment the parameters that facilitate the shortest processing time, using a superfinishing method, for reaching a roughness of Ra 0.2㎛. This objective is met by applying the Taguchi method in the experiments. Through the experiments of superfinishing, the effectiveness of the parameters adopted for the surface treatment is demonstrated.
