This paper presents a study of the influence of cutting parameters on surface finish obtained by face milling. Cutting conditions have significantly great effect on surface quality in high-precision machining. Fundamentally, surface roughness are strongly correlated with cutting parameters such as feed rate, cutting speed and depth of cut. Optimal selection of the cutting parameters can obtain better surface roughness. Therefore, optimization of the cutting parameters in a face milling based on the parameter design of the Taguchi method is adopted in this paper to improve surface roughness. And optimal cutting parameters based on the results of the S/N ratio and ANOVA analyses to performance high-precision machining is obtained and verified by confirmation test.