CNC Turning Services Overview

What is CNC Turning?

Let’s start with the basics of turning before talking about CNC Turning Services. Turning means holding a workpiece (wood or metal) in horizontal milling or turning machines and performing some operations over it.

Turning allows rotation of any shape object to remove material and leave an excellent surface finish. Such operations are performed to leave no room for post-processing and produce finished parts.

A CNC milling or turning machine rotates the workpiece and allows the operator to perform operations like removing material, cutting, shaping, and create features. CNC Turning Services include operations like creating rings, grooves, slots, contours, threads, and internal bores.

Following is a description concerning the basics of CNC turning and services. A variety of CNC turning services from the Netherlands can be found below the description.

CNC Turning Machine

A CNC turning machine is used in the manufacturing and production of precision parts. It holds bars of materials in a chuck and rotates the object. A tool is fed to the object to remove material and create a desired design and shape. The tool is attached to a turret which is controlled by a computer. The computer programmed turret moves and creates the programmed design.

CNC Turning machines are also called CNC Lathes and CNC Turners. These machines are flexible and offer various tools that can perform different designs and increase production in less time. CNC Lathes or Turning Centers have several options for the mounted turret. The more tools a turret can hold, the more designs it can produce.

CNC turning machines have a spindle that is the rotating assembly. With one spindle, a CNC is capable of performing work operations from one side. While a double spindle assembly can perform operations on a workpiece from both sides.

There are several types of CNC turning machines with various tooling and spindle options. They also have different power and speed varying capabilities that allow a user to increase or decrease the speed of the tool. However, it also depends on the nature of operations to be performed.

How does it work?

A CNC Turning machine is typically used to perform operations on cylindrical objects, such as shafts and pipes. A CNC turning machine works in the following procedure:

• A CAD model of the workpiece is drawn on a computer by a draftsman.
• The CAD file is transferred into G-code. G-Code is a CNC readable program that is used to set up the CNC turning machine.
• The workpiece is rotated through the spindle while the CNC turret moves and perform tooling operations to get the desired shape. This tool moves as per the G-codes that were created by the draftsman.
• A CNC turning machine does not require any operator to stand and operate. Operations are carried out automatically with precision and accuracy.
• Parts are left finished and smooth after the CNC turning operation is completed.

What material can it handle?

A CNC turning machine is capable of handling any solid and stable material. Hard plastics, wood, aluminium, various types of steels, brass, copper, titanium, and other alloys can be turned in a CNC turning machine.

The complexity of the job increases when using extremely hard materials. Suitable cutting tools are required for such operation which also takes longer processing times.

Read more about the basics of turning here.

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CNC Turning Services

CNC services as discussed above include Turning, Milling, Cutting and Sawing, and also Assembling. There are different types of CNC machines which can perform turning services on parts. There are companies that perform such services for customers and provide complete CNC turning solutions. This helps customers get highest accuracy work for their parts and products.

Machining centers take workpiece from customers and take their desired design requirements. After that, an operator may create a program to perform operation on the workpiece and place it in the machine. The machine then automatically performs all operations on the parts and produce parts accurately with excellent precision.

This is also one of the most cost-effective method to get machine parts, rather than buying your own machine and investing on a CNC operator.