Turning operations involve all metalworking operations for chip removal using machines called lathes. Basically, turning
consists of the removal of material through the contact between the workpiece in rotation and... the cutting tool. At the end of the turning process the piece will obtain the desired shape, it can be either a
finished piece or a semi-finished piece that will need other machining operations to reach the desired final shape. The lathes differ in two main areas, numerically controlled lathes and conventional lathes,
depending on whether or not they are equipped with cnc and consequently whether or not their operation is fully automatic. In addition to this main distinction upstream, it is important to know that there are
many types of lathes that differ from each other according to the structure, size and positioning of the workpiece. For each type of machining there will therefore exist a particular type of lathe that is better
suited to the desired machining operation. For example, for medium-sized and large one-off pieces, the use of parallel lathes and heavy vertical lathes will be preferred. For very small and mass-produced parts,
we will rather work with sliding headstock lathes. For series production of workpieces with diameters that are not too small, on the other hand, we will have lathes equipped with an automatic bar feeder.
These last-mentioned lathes can still be equipped with a motorised turret or not. The turret is the device, present in almost all lathes, on which the cutting tools are housed. When the turret is motorised,
it means that the cutting tools are also equipped with a rotary motion that allows more complex operations to be carried out on the workpiece. On a non-motorised turret, the fixed cutting tool removes
the material simply by contact with the workpiece. In the latest generation lathes, in addition to the turret or instead of it, we can also find a real milling head such as the one of machining centres
with the addition of an automatic tool magazine. This is the main feature of multitasking lathes, as the name itself suggests, they are very versatile machines that are particularly suitable for efficient
production processes by combining different machining operations within the same machine and therefore the same production cycle.
Turning operations involve all metalworking operations for chip removal using machines called lathes. Basically, turning
consists of the removal of material through the contact between the workpiece in rotation and the cutting tool. At the end of the turning process the piece will obtain the desired shape, it can be either a
finished piece or a semi-finished piece that will... need other machining operations to reach the desired final shape. The lathes differ in two main areas, numerically controlled lathes and conventional lathes,
depending on whether or not they are equipped with cnc and consequently whether or not their operation is fully automatic. In addition to this main distinction upstream, it is important to know that there are
many types of lathes that differ from each other according to the structure, size and positioning of the workpiece. For each type of machining there will therefore exist a particular type of lathe that is better
suited to the desired machining operation. For example, for medium-sized and large one-off pieces, the use of parallel lathes and heavy vertical lathes will be preferred. For very small and mass-produced parts,
we will rather work with sliding headstock lathes. For series production of workpieces with diameters that are not too small, on the other hand, we will have lathes equipped with an automatic bar feeder.
These last-mentioned lathes can still be equipped with a motorised turret or not. The turret is the device, present in almost all lathes, on which the cutting tools are housed. When the turret is motorised,
it means that the cutting tools are also equipped with a rotary motion that allows more complex operations to be carried out on the workpiece. On a non-motorised turret, the fixed cutting tool removes
the material simply by contact with the workpiece. In the latest generation lathes, in addition to the turret or instead of it, we can also find a real milling head such as the one of machining centres
with the addition of an automatic tool magazine. This is the main feature of multitasking lathes, as the name itself suggests, they are very versatile machines that are particularly suitable for efficient
production processes by combining different machining operations within the same machine and therefore the same production cycle.
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