What is the Difference Between CNC Machine Tools and Conventional Machine Tools?

Machine tool is a machine that manufactures machines, and it is also a machine that can manufacture machine tools itself. Turning, milling, planing, grinding, boring, drilling, electrical discharge machining, sheet metal shearing, bending, laser cutting, and so on are all mechanical processing methods. Mechanical processing means to process metal blank parts into the required shape, including two aspects, dimensional accuracy and geometric accuracy. Equipment that can accomplish the above functions are called machine tools. Numerical control machine tools are developed on the basis of ordinary machine tools. Numerical control machine tools are high-precision and high-efficiency automated machine tools. The meaning of numerical control is digital control.

What are the CNC Machine Tools?

The numerical control machine tool, simply put, is a digital control machine tool, which is an automated machine tool equipped with a program control system. The system can logically process programs with control codes or other symbolic instructions specified, decode them, and make the machine tool move and process parts.

The control unit of CNC machine tools completes all operations and monitoring of CNC machine tools. It is the brain of CNC machine tools. What we generally refer to as numerical control equipment mainly refers to numerical control lathes and machining centers.

In fact, numerical control technology is inseparable from CNC machine tools. The numerical control machine tool, simply understood, is to add numerical control system to the machine tool. Of course, adding a numerical control system alone is not enough for CNC machine tools.

Numerical control technology is the most advanced processing equipment used in the current mechanical processing industry. It includes various types such as numerical control lathes, numerical control milling machines, numerical control boring and milling machines, numerical control machining centers, and numerical control wire cutting. The so-called numerical control technology uses digital program signals to control the machining process of machine tools through computers.

Using CNC Machine Tools to Complete the Machining Process Has Incomparable Advantages over Ordinary Machine Tools

• It can greatly improve productivity. After the workpiece is clamped, the programmed machining program is input, and the machine tool will automatically complete the machining process. When the machined parts change, only the numerical control program needs to be changed, which greatly shortens the machining time and can increase productivity several times compared to ordinary machine tools.

• It has high machining accuracy, and the product quality is very stable. Because it is automatically processed according to the program, the machining accuracy can also be corrected and compensated by software, so it can achieve extremely high machining accuracy. Almost all of the high-precision products in various enterprises are manufactured using CNC machine tools.

• It has a high degree of automation, greatly reducing labor intensity, and to a large extent, blurring the difference between physical and mental labor. The work process of operators of CNC machine tools has a high degree of scientific and technological content, and requires high quality of operators and higher technical requirements of maintenance personnel. They no longer belong to the traditional "blue-collar workers." People who can operate CNC machine tools are called "gray-collar workers"; those who understand the maintenance of CNC machine tools are called "silver-collar workers"; and those who can operate and understand the maintenance of CNC machine tools are called "gold-collar workers."