The difference between a Honing Machine and a turning center

There are significant differences between the Honing Machine and the turning and milling center in terms of function, application and working principle.

Honing Machine is a machine that uses cone wheel grinding, which is mainly used to process metal parts of various shapes. In the automobile, tractor, hydraulic parts, bearings, aviation and other manufacturing industries, Honing Machine is often used to honing the hole of the workpiece to achieve the effect of finishing the surface. Its working principle mainly depends on the interaction between the rotating grinding wheel and the metal parts. The expansion and shrinkage of the honing head have two kinds of constant pressure feed and quantitative feed, of which the constant pressure feed is generally realized by hydraulic pressure, and the quantitative feed may be realized by servo motor, stepping motor or other intermittent mechanism.

Turning and milling center is a more complex machine tool equipment, which is composed of spindle system, tool library system, automatic tool changing system, control system and machine base. The spindle system can realize rotating motion and rocking motion to meet the processing needs of different workpieces. The tool library system includes a number of tool holders, each of which is equipped with a number of tools, which can quickly complete the automatic tool change operation. The control system is the intelligent core of turning and milling compound. Through programming control, it can precisely control the movement trajectory of the spindle and the feed amount of the tool, so as to achieve high-precision machining.

To sum up, there are significant differences between Honing Machine and turning and milling center in machining methods, application scope and structural composition. The choice of which equipment to use mainly depends on the specific processing needs and workpiece characteristics.