In the previous articles, we introduced several metal parts manufacturing processes. In this post, we are going to talk about the metal mechanical machining processes.
3.1 What is Mechanical Machining?
Mechanical machining is a process of directly cutting off excess metal thickness on the blank with cutting tools in the process of part production, so as to obtain the machining process that meets the technical requirements such as dimensional accuracy, shape and positional accuracy, surface quality required by the drawing.
3.2 Common machining methods and processing ranges
- Turning: Inner and outer cylindrical surfaces, conical surfaces, end faces, grooves, threads, etc.
- Milling: Plane, groove, gear, spline, curved surface, etc.
- Drilling: Through hole, blind hole, stepped hole, taper hole, etc.
- Boring: Enlarging and finishing the hole processed by drilling or reaming.
- Grinding: Various precision surfaces, cylindrical surfaces, conical surfaces, spherical surfaces, thread surfaces, etc.
- Planing: Planar surface, groove, etc.
- Gear machining: Processing range: Various gears, internal and external splines, worm gears, etc.
