Machine tool
A machine tool is a Machine able to maintain a tool and to print a movement to him in order to cut, cut out, deform a material. This machine can thus be used as means of Production.
Are in particular machine tools:
- machine tools for the removal of matter:
- the turn,
- the Milling machine,
- the Grinding machine…
- the drill press
- machine tools with numerical control:
- the center hole…
- tools for the assembly:
- the Screw driver…
The machine tools can be classified according to two main categories:
- conventional machine tool (conventional turn, conventional milling machine…)
- machine tool with numerical control (turn CN, milling machine CN…)
A machine tool comprises, generally:
- a rigid frame carried out with a high degree of accuracy,
- a table sliding according to several axes, guided by slides,
- one (or several) head equipped with pin allowing to fix the tool,
- several Driving S (rotation tool, movements of table),
- of the elements of operation (manual or automated),
- …
See too
- List of tools
- Tool
- Robot
- Milling machine
- Turn
- Drilling machine
- Machine