What is the difference between CNC milling machine and machining center?

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2023-12-11 09:15

What is the difference between CNC milling machine and machining center? In fact, this problem is not only confused for laymen, but also confused for many people in the industry. Simply put, the machining center is an upgraded version of the CNC milling machine. In fact, there are three main differences between the two types of processing equipment:
1. Whether with tool magazine
Ordinary CNC milling machines also have a CNC operating system, and also have three feed axes and a rotation axis. Their processing geometry is exactly the same, basically can achieve the same processing capacity.
The difference between the two is to see if there is a knife magazine. The machining center is actually a CNC milling machine with a tool magazine, which can realize one-time clamping and complete multiple processing procedures such as milling, drilling, and tapping. Because it can realize the automatic replacement of the tool, and in the multi-process continuous processing process, the operator does not need manual intervention, as long as the program is prepared and the tool and the corresponding parameters can be configured. On the other hand, CNC milling machine can also achieve a clamping process multiple processes. The difference is that in the process of process conversion, the tool is manually replaced, so the processing process is discontinuous.
So when you see a piece of equipment in the future, you can judge whether it is a CNC milling machine or a machining center very bluntly by whether you have a tool library or not. This is a gold standard.
Is it fully protected?
In fact, this is not absolute, many CNC milling machines have gradually begun to do full protection processing mode. Of course, there are many old-fashioned CNC milling machines still use open or semi-protected processing mode, which is different from the current machining center. Of course, this difference is not absolute (again).
3. Whether with automatic chip conveyor
Mobile standards based on the development of processing equipment. The reason is also due to some ex post functional trade-offs in R & D on previous devices. Many new CNC milling machines, full protection, automatic chip removal machines are basically standard, and there is not much difference between machining centers.
However, for those old-fashioned CNC milling machines, this standard is still valid. After all, a device that doesn't even have a good protection can't expect any automatic chip removal anyway. In fact, the current practitioners in the machinery industry should be grateful for this era, which provides the technology and ability to free our hands, so that we can complete our work more easily and efficiently. Moreover, with the all-round development of the industrial 4.0, this liberation of the labor force is also accelerating crazily, and even the elimination of many labor forces or methods will occur. Therefore, we must always be prepared. Technicality and artistry are the unified requirements of future industrial products and the only way for future development.