Ordinary CNC milling machine also has numerical control operating system (such as Japan Fanuc, Germany Siemens, China Central or Guangsu, etc.), also has three feed shaft and a rotating spindle, their processing mode geometry is exactly the same, but also basically can achieve the same processing capacity.
And their biggest difference is to see whether the equipment with a knife library, machining center is actually a CNC milling machine with a knife library, machining center can achieve a clamping and complete multiple processing processes, such as milling processing, drilling, tapping and so on, because it can realize the automatic change of the tool, and in the process of continuous processing, The operator does not need manual intervention, as long as the preparation of a good program, configuration of the tool and the corresponding parameters can be. Numerical control milling machine is not, numerical control milling machine can also achieve a clamping process, the difference is, in the process of conversion, must be manual tool change, so its processing process is discontinuous, is a plurality of degrees of intermittent execution, such processing whether in processing quality, or processing efficiency, are slightly less than the processing center.
So when you see a piece of equipment in the future, you can determine whether it is a CNC milling machine or a machining center by whether you have a knife library, which is a gold standard.
Full protection or not
In fact, this for a lot of equipment, is not absolute, a lot of CNC milling machine also gradually began to make full protection processing mode, of course, there are a lot of old CNC milling machine using is still open processing mode, or semi-protective processing mode, this to a certain extent and the current processing center still has a certain difference, of course, this difference is not absolute.
In fact, this and the development process of equipment has a great relationship, in the primary stage of CNC processing equipment, in fact, many manufacturers do not pay much attention to the appearance of design and safety protection, basically stay on the function of the appeal, so a lot of CNC milling machine has been made into an open form, or do a good point is the semi-open form, Although the CNC milling machine in the function is not too big defects, but in the processing of safety and processing environment and other aspects there are still great deficiencies, such as the processing of high temperature iron chips will splash into the human body, causing harm to the human body, the processing process used to cool the coolant tool will also splash to the operator, dirty the operator's clothes and so on, So although the development of the production equipment, especially the invasion of the high-end equipment abroad, the design and manufacturing of the processing equipment in our country have again strided towards a more humane, beautiful and artistic road.
This is a process, any progress needs a process, product technology, product art, is the future of industrial products unified requirements, but also the only way to the future development of industrial products.
Whether it has automatic chip removal device
This criterion is the same as the last one, are not absolute criteria, is also based on the process of processing equipment development to judge a mobile standard, the reason is because of the previous equipment in the development of some hindsight function of the choice caused by, many new CNC milling machine, full protection and automatic chip removal device is basically standard, And processing center is not much different.
But for those old CNC milling machine, the evaluation criteria or useful, after all, even a protection did not do a good job of the equipment, is in any case also dare not to expect what automatic chip removal, in fact, now the machinery industry practitioners, should thank this era, is this era provides the liberation of our hands technology and ability, Let us more easily and efficiently engage in our own work, and with the comprehensive development of industry 4.0, the liberation of the labor force is also speeding up crazily, and will even produce a lot of labor force or labor mode of elimination, we must always be prepared.