Can CNC Lathes Process All Parts?

Many people in the processing industry believe that CNC lathes can process all parts. In fact, some workpieces are more suitable for machining on CNC lathes, but not all parts are suitable for high-tech machining. For parts that can be produced by ordinary lathes, it is not easy to design a program to automate the production of CNC lathes. Instead, many programs have been added.
CNC lathes are mainly suitable for machining simple-shaped parts that are difficult to machine on ordinary lathes, or parts that can be machined by ordinary lathes and processed by operators with lower technical levels. And high-precision, large or expensive parts, mass-produced parts or parts whose size and shape can be adjusted multiple times. Suitable for CNC lathe processing:
Parts with small surface roughness values. When the material of the workpiece and the tool, the finishing allowance and the tool angle are determined, the surface roughness depends on the cutting speed and feed rate. Ordinary machine tools have a constant speed, and different diameters have different cutting speeds. For example, CNC lathes have a constant linear speed cutting function. When rotating end faces and outer circles of different diameters, the same linear speed can be used to ensure that the surface roughness values are small and consistent. When processing surfaces with different surface roughnesses, please select a smaller feed rate for the surface with smaller roughness and a larger feed rate for the surface with larger roughness. The variability is very good, which is difficult to achieve on ordinary machine tools. .

Parts with special types of threads. The threads that can be cut by traditional lathes are very limited. It can only process straight and tapered metric threads and inch threads at equal intervals, while the lathe is limited to processing multiple pitches. CNC lathes can not only process any straight thread, tapered, metric, inch and end thread with equal pitch, but also can process threads that require a smooth transition between equal pitch and variable pitch. When the CNC lathe is processing the thread, there is no need to alternately change the spindle rotation like the traditional lathe. It can cycle cutting again and again without stopping until completion, so it is very efficient in turning threads.

Rotating parts with good surface roughness. CNC lathes can machine parts with smaller surface roughness, not only because of the rigidity and high manufacturing accuracy of the machine tool, but also because of its constant linear speed cutting function. In the case of determining the material, the remaining amount of finishing and the tool, the surface roughness depends on the feed speed and cutting speed.
CNC lathe processing is a very advanced and efficient processing method among all the processing methods for processing certain precision hardware parts, so no matter it is any one of copper, aluminum, stainless steel, zinc alloy and other non-hardware products, it can also be processed Parts, such as hardware parts made of 316, 304 stainless steel and certain carbon steel materials, or hardware parts made of different types of alloy steel materials.
Through this article, we learned that CNC lathes are particularly suitable for processing, including but not limited to: special types of threaded parts and parts with small surface roughness and high precision. CNC lathes are suitable for the needs of processed parts and processed parts. Some parts have high requirements for accuracy, while CNC lathes are fully automatic, and standardized production can meet the accuracy requirements of the parts.