In the present work a simple solution technique based on one dimensional golden section method has been used for finding out optimal cutting conditions for single pass face milling operation. The production cost per piece function is minimized under practical constraints of surface finish, cutting power, cutting force and limits of speed and feed per tooth. The common practice is to use some nonlinear programming method to find out solution to single pass problems. Geometric programming (GP) based methods have been preferred because the objective function is posynomial and constraints are...