Machining centers are common machining equipment on the market and are widely used by major processing companies. Machining centers can be a clamping workpiece can be completed on multiple surfaces of the process processing, so the processing community has been favored. Machining centers and other machining centers is different, machining centers have automatic tool changer, which is the biggest advantage of machining centers, this automatic tool changer can be realized in the processing of automatic selection of tools and automatic exchange of installed spindle. There are two types of tool changers, namely, Robot tool change form and No manipulator tool change form. Here is an introduction to these two types of tool changers.

Robot tool change form

The form of robot tool changer is generally found in the use of disc tool magazine and chain tool magazine on the machining center, the most important feature of this form of tool change is that the tool change speed is very fast, the entire tool change process can be completed in only 4s. And this form of tool change is completed by the robot, in the machining center using this form of tool change is more common.

No manipulator tool change form

This form of tool change is mainly through the tool magazine and the spindle to complete the tool change, and the direction of the tool storage in the tool magazine should be the same as the direction of the spindle, otherwise the tool change can not be carried out. Tool change, the tool magazine to the spindle direction to move to the tool change position, the spindle directly take out the tool or put back the tool, and then the tool moves back to the original point. This form of tool change is generally found in the use of bucket hat type tool magazine on the machining center, this type of tool change form has a simple structure, easy maintenance, cost-effective advantages, the disadvantage is that the tool change is slow, the entire process of changing the tool takes 8 s. In the machining center in general, only this form of tool change.  Machining center common tool change form has the above two kinds, these two kinds of tool change form in the machining center has been widely used.