With the continuous development of industrial machinery, the application of CNC lathe machines and machining centers makes machining more simple and convenient. So, what are the differences between the machining center and the CNC lathe?

CNC Lathe Machine

CNC lathe is a kind of automatic machine tool with high precision and high efficiency. Equipped with a multi-station cutter tower or power cutter tower, the machine has a wide range of processing technology performances and can process linear cylinder, oblique cylinder, arc, and a variety of thread, groove, worm, and other complex workpiece, with linear interpolation, arc interpolation compensation functions, and in the batch production of complex parts has played a good economic effect.

Turning, milling, planing, grinding, boring, drilling, EDM, plate shearing, bending, laser cutting, and so on are mechanical processing methods. The so-called machining is to process the metal rough parts into the required shapes, including dimensional accuracy and geometric accuracy. The equipment that can complete the above functions is called a lathe, CNC machine tools are developed on ordinary machine tools, and numerical control means digital control.

A machine tool becomes a numerical control machine tool when it is fitted with a numerical control system. Of course, the development of ordinary machine tools to CNC machine tools is not just so simple. For example, from the development of milling machines to the machining center, the structure of machine tools has changed, the most important of it is to add a knife library, which greatly improves the accuracy. The main functions of the machining center are milling, boring, and drilling.

CNC Machining Center 

CNC machining center is composed of mechanical equipment and a CNC system for processing complex parts of high-efficiency automatic machine tools. Its comprehensive processing capacity is strong,  the workpiece can complete more processing content after a clamping.

Machining centers are usually classified into horizontal, vertical, and universal machining centers by the relative position of the spindle and workbench.

Horizontal machining center: it refers to the machining center the spindle axis and workbench are parallel, mainly suitable for processing box parts.

Vertical machining center: it refers to the machining center the spindle axis and the table are vertical, mainly suitable for processing plate, plate, mold, and small shell rest complex parts.

Universal machining center (also known as multi-axis linkage machining center): it refers to the machining center the spindle axis and the rotary axis of the table angle can control the linkage change and complete complex space surface.

CNC Equipment

The CNC equipment we called is mainly a CNC lathe and machining center. The machining center is a  CNC machine tool with a knife library, with an automatic tool change function, after clamping the workpiece for multi-process processing. The machining center is highly electromechanical integration of products, workpiece clamping, CNC system can control the machine tool according to different processes automatic selection, tool replacement, automatic knife, automatic change of spindle speed, feed, etc., can continuously complete drilling, boring, milling, reaming, tapping and other processes. Therefore, it greatly reduces the workpiece clamping time, measurement and machine tool adjustment, and other auxiliary process time, and has a good economic effect on the processing of complex shapes, high precision requirements, and frequent replacement of varieties of parts.

In The End

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