How Various Lathe Machines Are Being Used In Industries?

Depending on the usage, lathe machines are being designed in different forms. In this article, we will see how various lathe machines are being used in industries.

Light duty lathe machine

Light duty lathe machines are fairly small in size hence they required less space as compared to other lathe machines. Due to its small size, its maximum swing over bed is limited to 20 inches or less. Light duty lathe machines are readily in wood industries for woodturning. Other uses of such machines include slotting, turning, tapering, metal spinning and similar light applications on the smaller workpiece. Light duty lathe machine is used for small scale jobs like manufacturing of jewelry.  One can easily groove, shape, cut, knurl, and cut on harder metal by using the lathe machine.

Due to small size and complex shape of jewelry, jewelry must be made high quality of light duty lathe machine so that high quality and the perfect dimension of material can be made.

Jewelry must be durable and good aesthetic. Therefore it must be perfect flatness and smoothness. For this light duty lathe machine is used.

Medium Duty Lathe machine

Medium duty lathe machine consists of a bed made with grained cast iron. Machines of this category are made with high grade cast iron giving extra strength to its bed. The Event in a heavy load and high pressure it works without vibrations. This allows medium duty lathe machine to work consistently with high precision even under high pressure. It can use industrial use and mechanical application like boring, facing, turning, threading, shaping etc. This machine is proficient in industrial use like shaping and metal cutting.

As compared to light duty machine tools, these machines provide more strength to and can be used to work on bigger workpieces.

Heavy duty lathe machine

Heavy duty lathe machines are one of the most widely used lathe machines because of its superior quality and fast rate of output. Heavy duty lathe machine is made of the highest quality of material like steel and iron. It is efficient to performing high duty operations like sliding, cutting and surfacing. It is considered for metal spinning, metal working, wood turning and metal fabricating in various industries including power plants, steel plants, oil and mining industries, shipbuilding factories, repair shops, paper textiles. Because of high-performance capacity to work on great speed, they are especially preferred for high volume production.

Extra Heavy Duty lathe machine

Depending on the type, the swing of bed for these machines varies from 630mm to 1600mm. Apart from this; extra heavy duty lathe machines provide more efficiency and better performance as compared to other lathe machines. Because of these features, it has a wide range of uses in various industries including shipbuilding, iron and steel plants, paper industry, etc.Extra heavy duty machine is available with different technical specification like a lead screw, bed, a width of bed. These are of lathe machines need less maintenance and It performs better than other.

CNC lathe machine

The cnc lathe machine is known as computer numerical controlled lathe machine. The cnc machine consists of a minicomputer and micro controller that act as a controlled unit of the machine. In cnc lathe machine the instructions are stored on the memory of a computer.

Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) lathe machines use a computer to control tools and performing different operations on the workpiece. The computer is programmed with G-code. A custom computer program is fed into the computer containing instruction about the tasks to be performed. Through code, one can control various features of the machine such as positioning, velocity, rate, etc. Since it is a machine performing the task, human error in the process of performing operations is removed. The computer can perform the operations precisely and repeatedly at high speed. Because of its precision and reliable performance, CNC lathe machines are rapidly replacing older lathe machines in various industries including metal and plastic industries.

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