What is the difference between a machining center and a CNC lathe?
A machining center is a type of CNC machine tool. A CNC milling machine without a tool magazine is a machining center, also called a CNC machining center. A machining center (Computerized Numer ical Control Machine) is referred to as CNC. It is a high-efficiency automated machine tool composed of mechanical equipment and a CNC system for processing complex-shaped workpieces.
What are the machine tools?
Turning, milling, planing, grinding, boring, drilling, electric spark, shearing, bending, laser cutting, etc. are all mechanical processing methods. The so-called mechanical processing is to process metal blank parts into the required shape, including dimensional accuracy and geometric accuracy. Equipment that can complete the above functions is called a machine tool. CNC machine tools are developed from ordinary machine tools. CNC means digital control system.
After the machine tool is equipped with a CNC system, the machine tool becomes a CNC machine tool. Of course, the development of ordinary machine tools to CNC machine tools is not as simple as adding systems. For example, from milling machines to machining centers, the structure of machine tools has changed. The most important thing is the addition of tool magazines, which greatly improves the accuracy. The main functions of machining centers are milling, boring, and drilling.
The CNC equipment we generally refer to is mainly CNC machine tools and machining centers. In general, machining centers are a type of CNC machine tools. CNC milling machines without tool magazines are called CNC milling machines, and those with tool magazines are called machining centers, also called CNC machining centers.
