What Can Customers Get from Turn-milling Service?

What is Turn-mill Machining?

The composite machining of turning and milling can be abbreviated as turn-mill or turn-milling. Turn-milling is an advanced cutting process which performs the cutting process to workpiece by utilizing the compound motion of the rotation of mill tool and the workpiece, and make the workpiece meet the requirements of customer. Such as the shape precision, position precision and the integrity of machined surface. The turn-mill machining is not a simple combination by add turning and milling process into one machine tool, but employ the simultaneous or continuous motion of turn and mill to process various surfaces. With the help of the turn-mill service, the customer can get a high precision and complex shape prototype in a very short time, along with a small cost. This composite machining can be applied in the mass production as well.

Why the turn-mill machining is helpful?

Usually, the turn-mill machining are performed by the turn-mill CNC machine. The turn-mill CNC machine is one of the main types of composition machine tool. Usually, many milling process can be realized on the basis of CNC lathe, such as the milling, drilling, tapping and slot milling. This turn-mill CNC machine posses the composite function of turning, milling and boring, which can achieve the one-time complete machining by once clamping.

What is turn-mill machine?

The motion of turn-mill machine comprise four basic motions, such as mill tool rotation, workpiece rotation, mill axial feed and radial feed. According to the different relative position of the workpiece rotation axis and the tool rotation axis, the turn mill combination machining can be divided into the axial turn-milling, orthogonal turn-milling and general turn-milling. Among them, the axial turn-milling and orthogonal turn-milling are the most widely used process of turn-mill.  The axial turn-mill can not only process the surface of outer cylinder, but also the surface of inner holes, as the rotation axis of mill tool and workpiece are parallel to each other.The orthogonal turn-milling has great efficiency when process outer cylinder, as its rotation axis of mill tool and workpiece are perpendicular to each other. The orthogonal turn-mill can process the inner hole when its' diameter is small. However, when the orthogonal turn-mill process the surface of outer cylinder, the longitudinal stroke won't be limited, and which can even adapt large longitudinal feed.

What's the advantage of turn-milling?

1. The Reduction of R&D or Production Cycle

The turn-mill service can help customers cut down the R&D cycle. With the application of turn-mill CNC machine, the the manufacturing chain of the products or prototype are cut down, and the production efficiency are improved significantly. The turn-mill machine can equipped with many special tools and new-type tool permutation, which can reduce the tool changing time and increase the process efficiency. The turn mill composite machining can realize all machining or most parts of machining by once clamping, so as to cut down the manufacturing chain greatly. In this way, the products can be finished in a very short production cycle. With the fast turn around of products or prototype, the customer can earn great advantage on the stage of R&D and production.

2. The Improvement of Precision

The precision of products will be improved effectively. The clamping time of turn mill machine is reduced greatly, which will improve the machining precision significantly. Because the reduction of clamping avoided the accumulation tolerance which emerged by the change of position base. At the same time, many turn-mill machine equipment have on-line testing function, which can achieve the on-position testing and precision control for the key data during manufacturing, so as to raise the precision of products.

3. The Reduction of Production Cost

The production cost is reduced significantly due to the high production efficiency and the decrease of machining time. In this way, the turn-milling service can help customers save a lot of money on production or rapid prototype. On the one hand, the turn-mill machining reduced the auxiliary production time which made by the change of clamping. On the other hand, turn-milling decreased the manufacturing cycle and waiting time of fixtures and jigs, which can increase the productivity remarkably. The design of high-strength integrated machine body raised the gravity machining ability to the difficult-cutting material. Usually, the turn-mill machine is equipped with automatic feed device, which can do continuous machining through automatic feeding, and realize the pipelining production with single machine. The production time is one of the main part of cost, as it's related to the labour cost. With the reduction of manufacturing time, customers can get low-cost and high-precision products.

Application area

Generally, customers will choose the turn-mill service for the high-speed mass production for various of small and complex parts. The used materials range from brass, to steel, aluminium, stainless steel and Teflon etc.