CNC lathe loading and unloading, by machine brand
51 model pages for CNC lathes, turn-mill machines, sliding-head machines, inverted vertical lathes and heavy lathes: how each machine family is fed, clamped, unloaded and lined up, and what the concept is checked against.
CNC lathes and turning centers (35 pages)
A short cycle per part and large batches, with dense repeated handling.
Turn-mill machines and twin-spindle lathes (6 pages)
Turning, milling and drilling completed in one clamping, with long cycles per part and strongly coupled operations.
Heavy lathes (4 pages)
A heavy part per piece and long cycles, with clamping and alignment taking a large share of the total time.
Sliding-head machines (4 pages)
Slender small parts with a very short cycle per piece, formed in one pass, where material utilisation and continuity come first.
Inverted vertical lathes (1 pages)
Loading and unloading carried out by the spindle itself, a stable cycle per part and chips and center of gravity falling downwards.
Ultra-precision lathes (1 pages)
Long cycles per part and extreme sensitivity to thermal distortion and to the repeatability of location.
What these pages say, and what they do not
Two rules are carried on every page in this directory, because a machine-family page is not a project record.
Note The brand and model information on this page comes from the company's own material and is used to explain the differences in automation fit between machine families, series and models. A brand name does not mean agency, authorization, certification or partnership, and does not mean that a project has been completed on a machine of that brand. Whether a specific model can be loaded and unloaded automatically has to be confirmed on site against the chuck, the door and guard structure, the fixture type and the layout.
Scope Each page sets out the machine data the concept is checked against, the configurations the machine can take, the part families it suits and what has to be measured or photographed before selection. No page carries a customer name, an installed base, a cycle time or a result figure unless a closed project and the customer's disclosure authorization exist.
Before a proposal The parameter groups every page asks for — part, machining, machine, automation and site — are the same five groups the business line pages use.