JME Manuscript Review Form

Paper Number: JME13061915

Paper Title: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON INFLUENCE OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON DROSS
PROPERTIES IN LASER MACHINING OF AISI 304 MATERIAL

Reviewer Recommendation Term: Minor Revision

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Comments for the Editor:

The paper is well written and organized.

Comments to Author:
1.Quality of figure 1 need to be improved
2. Page 2. Under section -2. Experimental Work para 2.. Therefore, total 17 experiments ……. to design suggested by
Design expert software V11.
As an authors should know by which method software suggested these number of experiments. Author should specify
name of the Method.
3. Under Section - 4. Optimization of Process Parameters, Author used desirability function, it is suggested to give
more details about this function, procedure of calculation etc. Further, Author should add few references about this in
literature review section

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