2. Automatic lathe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    article is about mechanically automated lathes. For CNC lathes and their technological offshoots, ... automated ones, from the s until the advent of NC and CNC in the s and s. CNC has not yet entirely displaced ... the maturation of CNC, the implicit dichotomy of manual versus automatic still ... but because CNC is so ubiquitous, the term automatic has lost some of its ... power. All CNC machine tools are automatic, but ... implicitly to cam-operated machines. Thus a plain old -axis CNC lathe is not referred to as an automatic lathe even though ... . However, within the machining subspecialty of Swiss-style CNC turning centers, the word automatic is often used freely ... refersit is, literally speaking, automaticfor cam-op and CNC ... are fully automated, whether mechanically via cams or by CNC computerized control , which means that once they are set ... in the s; computerized control via first NC and then CNC came later, beginning in the ... they are fading into

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