Modern equipment, which is used for metal cutting, by its design features, are direct relatives of those mechanisms that people have used for processing for a long time. The rotational movement of the workpiece to be processed, or the cutting tool itself, is the basis of all machines for machining certain materials. With the help of a rotary motion, it is possible not only to cut and shape, but also to make holes and provide the surface of the material to be processed with a certain class of cleanliness. equipment for metal processing , widely used in production, allows to achieve high productivity and accuracy in the manufacture of parts.
Metal-cutting machines, in the process of their development, have mastered many new opportunities for themselves. This is how grinding, drilling, boring, planing and other types of metal-cutting equipment appeared. Quite often, such operations were combined in one multipurpose machine. This is how the programmed coordinate boring machines, CNC guillotine shears and CNC press brakes appeared. These are already modern prototypes of ancient mechanisms that use rotational energy for mechanical processing of materials.
Turning metal-cutting equipment appeared in the first half of the 18th century. At that time, such machines were not important enough. Due to the lack of mass production, as such, they were used only for the manufacture of small batches of goods. The process of rapid development of lathes and other metal-cutting machines began with the advent of serial production in the industry. The first parts of mass production, which were made on lathes, were gun barrels. The impetus for the development of milling machines was the need to manufacture, and in large quantities, gear wheels. Such wheels were used in almost all machines and mechanisms.
