Lathes

A lathe is a basic two-axis machine tool that consists of a headstock with spindle, a chuck for holding the part, a lathe bed, carriage and cross-slide, tool turret and tailstock. The workpiece is loaded into the chuck and rotated while a cutting tool moves across it for specific cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, contouring, facing and other turning operations.

Okuma America Empowers Shops to Embrace Forward-thinking Possibilities

In the metal-cutting industry, where there are several machine tool builders that build excellent and precise machine tool products, customer service becomes a major…

Articles from Lathes

Okuma America Empowers Shops to Embrace Forward-thinking Possibilities

In the metal-cutting industry, where there are several machine tool builders that build excellent and precise machine tool products, customer service becomes a major…

Flexible and Compact Turning Solutions Deliver Powerful Performance

Forward-thinking turning solutions enhance your shop’s metal cutting productivity.

How to Prepare Your CNC Machines and Robots for Optimal Performance Post-Shutdown

Effectively planning a post-shutdown maintenance procedure and power up program will ensure a smooth transition from maintenance to production.

Latest Generation of Multi-Spindle Lathe Increases Flexibility and Efficiency, INDEX, MS40-8 multi-spindle automatic lathe, MS40-8, threading, inclined boring, cross drilling, contour milling, gear hobbing, polygonal turning, 16 tool carriers

Versatile Turning Center Solutions Ensure Your Shop Stays Competitive

Innovations in turning centers and lathes reduce set up times allowing you to produce more complex parts in shorter time frames.

An 8”-x-12” Bench Lathe Easily Handles a Wide Variety of Turning Operations

Palmgren’s bench lathe meets the requirements of prototype shops, home machinists, jewelry manufacturing, tool rooms and fabrication and maintenance shops which need to turn small metal parts.

Tobias Unosson, GibbsCAM 2024, GibbsCAM, Sandvik Coromant, CoroPlus Tool Library, cutting tool software, ISO 13399, cloud-based tool library, digital connectivity, CAM, CAD, Sandvik Coromant’s PrimeTurning, inserts, milling, Thorsten Strauß, Marc Freebrey, machining centers

Powerfully Simple, Simply Powerful: GibbsCAM 2024

GibbsCAM announces the release of GibbsCAM 2024, which continues to boost end-user productivity for programming advanced machining centers, underpinning the GibbsCAM promise of Powerfully Simple, Simply Powerful.

Articles from Machining

Air Turbine Spindles 601 Series Spindle, CNC, CFM airflow, cutting, grinding, micro-machining, collets

New Air Turbine Spindles Enhances Productivity with Small Cutting Tools

Air Turbine Technology’s new 601 Series at 65,000/90,000 rpm is ideal for machinists and programmers to enhance performance

Fabricating & Metalworking, supply chain, transportation, electirical, primary metals, machinery, fabricated metal products, Ceratizit

Optimism Tempered with Concern

In February, U.S. supply chain executives responses to monthly Report on Business reported expansion after 26 consecutive months of contraction. The January manufacturing PMI registered at 50.9%, up from the seasonally adjusted 49.2% in December. The respondents are members of...

HEULE, DL2 Tooling, micro machining, deburring, CNC, boring, bores

New Tool for Efficient and Reliable Deburring of Small Bores

HEULE introduces the DL2 – a small, robust, reliable mechanical deburring tool for 1.00 mm to 2.1 mm bores in a wide range of materials including steel, stainless steel, titanium, aluminum, composites and more.

Walter’s Groov∙tec GD G5011, grooving tool, turning, copy turning, parting off, radial grooving, double serration clamping, inserts, GD26 cutting inserts, Tiger·tec® Gold grades, insert, clamping

Grooving Tool for Radial Grooving and Parting Off, Groove Turning and Copy Turning

Walter’s Groov∙tec GD G5011 grooving system has a serrated seating profile on two sides of the insert for doubly secure clamping in the pocket.

GROB, PMTS 2025, GROB G550T 5-axis mill-turn universal machining center, power skiving capabilities, GROB TRAORI-turning, “GSC Advanced: Achieving Optimum Accuracy on Universal Machines”, Mike Hough

GROB Systems to Demonstrate Challenging 5-Axis Power Skiving Applications at PMTS 2025

The GROB G550T 5-axis mill-turn universal machining center will be on display at PMTS Booth 3063 at Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio, April 1-3.