I believe everyone is familiar with vertical machining center. Vertical machining center has reached 50% utilization rate in the domestic CNC machine tool market. It is conceivable that vertical machining center is widely used in various processing enterprises and is favored by many enterprises. Vertical machining center is developed from basic CNC milling machine. It integrates all the characteristics and functions of CNC milling machine, and also integrates the functions of many other CNC machine tools, such as boring machine, drilling machine, milling machine and other machine tools.
Vertical machining center has the following main functions:
Automatic tool change function
Vertical machining center and CNC milling machine have basically the same structure and similar processing technology, but the biggest difference between the two is that the machining center uses automatic tool change device and tool magazine, while CNC milling machine does not have this function. Vertical machining center with automatic tool change device and tool magazine has automatic tool change function, which can be replaced according to the tool used in processing. In general, vertical machining center can change tools at will to process different processes of workpiece.
Function of processing multiple processes with one workpiece clamping
From the previous function point, the vertical machining center has the function of automatic tool change. With this function, it can process multiple processes in one clamping process, such as boring, drilling, milling, tapping and threading.
Function of expanding the number of axes
Since the conventional three-axis machining center cannot meet the requirements of customer product processing, for example: processing complex curved surface workpieces such as impellers, blades, shafts, propellers, etc. cannot be processed by the three-axis vertical machining center, so the four-axis or five-axis function is expanded according to the requirements of customer products. From the above, it can be known that the vertical machining center has the function of expanding the number of axes, and the functions of four-axis, five-axis and multi-axis can be expanded.
Multiple machining surfaces can be processed with one workpiece clamping
From the above, it can be known that the vertical machining center can expand the number of axes. Therefore, after the vertical machining center expands the number of axes, the workpiece can be clamped and processed on multiple machining surfaces at one time. It avoids the precision error caused by multiple clamping, and also saves the time of manual clamping of workpieces.
