When was the world's first CNC machine tool born?
The great invention of CNC machine tools brought the world's technological development into another advanced new stage and led the world's automation development. Then when did this pioneering work be developed and produced by who?
Metal processing is mainly to obtain the required metal shape by removing material from the knife. Material removal mainly depends on turning and milling. The lathe developed into a CNC lathe, and the milling machine developed into a machining center. High-precision multi-axis machine tools can make the accuracy and shape of complex parts in place at one time. For example, a complex part on an airplane was once processed by many types of workers: lathe workers, milling machine workers, grinder workers, line drawing workers, and heat treatment workers, requiring months of work and a large number of parts scrapped. The latest composite CNC machine tools can be completed in a few days or even a few hours, and the accuracy is higher than your design. High precision of parts means long life and good reliability.
At the end of the 1950s, the United States manufactured the world's first CNC lathe, and the machine tool manufacturing industry entered the CNC era. Since the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed the world's first CNC machine tool in 1952, CNC machine tools have been widely used in manufacturing, especially in the automotive, aerospace and military industries. CNC technology has developed rapidly in both hardware and software.
Although the United States produced the world's first CNC machine tool, the development of CNC machine tools still depends on Germany. Germany ranks first in the world in terms of machinery, and CNC machine tools are nothing but mechatronics. Germany has no problems with machinery, and the rest is with electronic systems. Germany's electronic system industry is already very strong, so in the 1960s and 1970s, Germany was in a leading position in the field of machine tools.
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