The development level of CNC lathe not only shows the development level of a country's contemporary manufacturing industry, but also is one of the key indicators to consider a country's development level.

Clear the development process andaluminum prototype machining other significance of global CNC lathes and Chinese CNC lathes. Despite the rapid development of our country, the difference between CNC machine industry and advanced industry is unimaginable, and it will be difficult to achieve at present. In addition, we are trying to narrow the gap.

With the advantage that China has become the largest country in the consumption and import of machine tools in the world, the development trend of intelligent manufacturing industry in China has long been overwhelming. The application of numerical control technology has not only added revolutionary changes to the traditional manufacturing industry, making the manufacturing industry a symbol of industrialization, but also with the rapid development of numerical control technology and the expansion of application fields, it has played an increasingly important role in the development of some key industries of the national economy and the people's livelihood, especially the military industry, because of its strict provisions on the accuracy of goods.

Because of the wide application of numerical control technology, the society needs a large number of numerical control machine tool operators. With the development of numerical control, there is also an urgent need for a group of maintenance and other related numerical control talents.

With the continuous development of social production and science and technology, various new industrial products emerge in endlessly. Machinery manufacturing industry is the basic of national industry, and the commodities are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex, especially in key areas such as national defense and aerospace. Its provisions for commodities are higher. Obviously, some ordinary machine tools or automated machine tools with strong systematization level cannot be satisfied.

As market competition intensifies, the company stipulates to improve production efficiency and quality and reduce costs, so CNC lathes are born at the right time. In particular, a country with a large population like China has to use machinery to meet everyone's needs. It is of great significance for China's development and urges China to dare to face international challenges.

More importantly, it is conducive to the realization of the Chinese dream in the new era, laying the foundation for China's industry and gaining long-term momentum.

History of CNC development:

In 1948, Parsons accepted the Commission of the U.S. air force to develop production equipment for the contour sample of aircraft propeller blades. Because the shape of the sample plate is complex and diverse, and the accuracy requirement is high, the general production equipment cannot adapt to it, so the idea of computer-controlled machine tool is proposed.

In 1949, with the help of the servo mechanism research office of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the enterprise began the research on CNC lathes,

In 1952, the first three-axis CNC milling machine transformed from a large-scale vertical profiling milling machine was successfully trial produced, and soon began formal production.

It was officially put into use in 1957. This is a major breakthrough in the development of production technology, which means the beginning of the era of NC machining in the manufacturing industry. NC machining is the basic of modern manufacturing technology. This invention has epoch-making significance and far-reaching impact on the manufacturing industry

In 1952, MIT and Giddens Lewis co developed the world's first CNC lifting table milling machine, and then Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union and other countries developed their first CNC lathes in 1956.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the United States, Japan, Germany and Britain successively entered the commercial trial production, because at that time, the numerical control system was in the early stage of electronic tubes, transistors and integrated circuits, and the equipment was large, the route was complicated, the price was expensive, and the stability was poor. Most of the numerical control lathes were simple numerical control drilling machines. The numerical control technology was not popularized, and the overall development of the numerical control lathe technology was slow.

In the 1970s, large-scale integrated circuits and small computers appeared, especially the successful development of microcontrollers, which realized the small size, fast operation speed, improved stability and reduced price of the numerical control system, greatly improving the overall characteristics and quality of the numerical control system. At the same time, the basic theory and core technology of the numerical control lathe have made new breakthroughs, which has injected new vitality into the development of the numerical control lathe, The CNC lathe industry in developed countries in the world has entered a stage of development.

Since the 1980s, the operation speed of the microcontroller of the numerical control system has increased rapidly, the function has been gradually improved, and the stability has been further improved. The supervision, inspection, tool change, and external equipment have been used, which has led to the comprehensive development of the numerical control lathe, the rapid expansion of the types of numerical control lathes, and the numerical control lathe industry in developed countries has entered the stage of development and application.

In the 1990s, CNC lathes have been widely used, and CNC lathe technology has further developed. Soft modules, soft systems, and automatic chemical plants have begun to use, which means that the industrialization of CNC lathes has entered a mature stage.

China China developed the first CNC lathe in 1958. The development process can be roughly divided into two stages. It was the first stage from 1958 to 1979, and the second stage from 1979 to now. In the first stage, there was a lack of understanding of the characteristics and development standards of CNC lathes. In the case of poor staff quality, weak foundation and unqualified supporting parts, they went up and down one after another. They had three ups and downs, and finally stopped because of poor performance, which could not be used for production. The key deficiency is that it is one-sided and lacks the scientific spirit of seeking truth from facts. In the second stage, CNC system technology was introduced successively from Japan, Germany, the United States and Spain, and CNC lathe advanced technology, cooperation and joint venture production were introduced from 11 countries (regions) including Japan, the United States, Germany, Italy, Britain, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, South Korea and Taiwan Province, which solved the problems of stability and stability. CNC lathes began to be officially produced and applied, and gradually developed.

In more than 20 years, the design and production technology of CNC lathes have been greatly improved, which is embodied in three levels: training a group of talents in design, manufacturing, application and maintenance; According to the cooperative production of advanced CNC lathes, the level of design, manufacturing and application hasaluminum sheet metal fabrication been greatly improved, and the difference with global advanced technology has been narrowed;

According to the use of overseas advanced components and CNC systems, we can start to design and manufacture high-speed, high-performance, five face or five axis CNC lathes. Supply the domestic market demand, but the experiment, digestion, mastery and innovation of core technology are poor. So far, many key functional components, automatic cutting tools and numerical control systems can not develop independently with the help of overseas technology support. Most of them are in the stage from imitation to independent development, which is far from the level of Japanese numerical control lathes.

The climax of CNC lathes has entered the 21st century. The development of military technology and civil industry has higher and higher requirements for CNC lathes. The application of modern design technology, measurement technology, process intensification, a new generation of functional components and their software technology has greatly improved the processing range, dynamic performance, processing accuracy and stability of CNC lathes. With the rapid development of science and technology, especially information technology, high-speed and high-precision control system, multi-channel open system architecture, multi axis control system, intelligent control technology, networking technology, and the comprehensive integration of cad/cam and CNC, CNC lathe technology has entered a higher stage of intelligence, networking, agile manufacturing, and virtual manufacturing.