With the development of technology, the CNC lathe machining has appeared to solve many massive production problems. However, it also has many different types to meet specific demands. Therefore, in this paper, we will introduce the differences between CNC milling machine and CNC milling machining center.
What on earth is the difference between CNC milling machine and machining center? In fact, not only the layman is very confused about this problem, a lot of industry insiders also can not tell the difference between them. To put it simply, the machining center is the upgraded version of CNC milling machine.
In fact, these two kinds of processing equipment mainly have the following three differences:
👉With Cutter Library Or Not
Ordinary CNC milling machine is also a CNC operating system (such as Fanuc Japan, Siemens Germany, China or China, etc.), there are three feed shafts and a rotating spindle. Their machining geometry is exactly the same, and they can achieve basically the same machining capability.
The biggest difference between them is whether the device has a cutter tool library. CNC machining center is a cutter library CNC milling machine, machining center can implement a clamping finishes the work of multi-channel processing operations, such as milling, drilling, tapping processing and so on, because it can realize automatic tool change, and in the process of multiplex process continued, the operator is not need human intervention, as long as a good program, Configure the cutter and the corresponding parameters are ok.
While the CNC milling machine is not the case, it can achieve more than once the clamping process. The difference is that in the process of transformation it must require tool change manually. So the process is discontinuous and more than one degree of discontinuous execution. So whether the machining quality or the machining efficiency of portable CNC milling machine is slightly inferior than CNC milling machine center.
So you can determine whether it is a CNC milling machine or a CNC milling center very directly by whether it has a cutter library or not, which is a gold standard.
👉Is It Fully Protected?
This is not always true for many devices. A lot of CNC milling machine also gradually began to make full protection of the processing mode. Of course, there are also a lot of old CNC milling machine is still open processing, or semi-protective processing. This is also different form the current processing center to a certain extent, of course, and this difference is not absolute.
In fact, it has a lot to do with the development process of equipment. In the primary stage of CNC processing equipment, many manufacturers do not pay much attention to the appearance design and safety protection, basically still stay on the appeal of the function. So a lot of CNC milling machines are made of open form, or do a little better is semi-open form. Although the CNC milling machine does not have many defects on the function, it has a lot of deficiencies in the machining of safety and environmental aspects, such as processing of high temperature iron filings will splash into the human body, causing harm to human body, used for cooling in the process of machining tool cooling fluid will splash to the operator, operator soiled clothes and so on.
It's a process. Any progress needs a process, product technology, product art, is the unified requirements of the future of industrial products, but also the only way for the future development of industrial products.
👉With Automatic Chip Removal Or Not
This judgment standard is the same with the last one, they are not the absolute judgment standards.they are standards based on the process of processing equipment development. The reason is also due to the previous equipment in the development of some of the functions of the hindsight of the trade-off caused by. A lot of new CNC milling machines, full protection and automatic chip eliminator are basically standard, and there is no big difference between the processing center.
But for those old- fashioned CNC milling machines, the criteria still work. After all, a protection has not done a good job of equipment, is in any case also dare not expect what automatic chip discharge. In fact, the current machinery industry practitioners, should be grateful to this era, is this era provides the technology and ability to free our hands, so that we can more easily and efficiently engaged in our own work.
In The End
According to the above, it is better to choose milling center if you need to choose a device. The machining center has high processing efficiency, and its processing range is wider, especially with the use of the rotary table of the fourth axis, it is perfect.