Cutting apparatus

A cutting apparatus comprising:

• a chuck table for holding a workpiece;
• a cutting blade for cutting said workpiece held on said chuck table;
• cutting means on which said cutting blade is detachably mounted;
• control means for controlling said cutting means according to processing conditions set for processing of said workpiece;
• and
• a blade case holder for holding a blade case for storing said cutting blade;
• said blade case being provided with an integrated circuit tag allowing reading and writing of use history information of said cutting blade;
• said cutting apparatus further comprising read/write means connected to said control means for reading the use history information of said cutting blade from said integrated circuit tag of said blade case held by said blade case holder and writing the use history information of said cutting blade to said integrated circuit tag,
• wherein the use history information of said cutting blade read from said integrated circuit tag by said read/write means is reflected in said processing conditions, and the use history information of said cutting blade after processing of said workpiece is written to said integrated circuit tag by said read/write means.