CNC Turning Service
Allied Metal provides quality machining solutions with high precision and efficiency!
What is CNC turning?
CNC turning is a processing technology that utilizes computer control to accurately machine parts of various shapes and sizes by rotating the workpiece and the relative motion of the cutting tool.
Features and advantages of CNC turning
- High precision: It can realize extremely high machining precision and ensure that the parts meet the design requirements.
- High efficiency: automated machining greatly improves productivity and reduces labor costs.
- Flexibility: Suitable for the processing of a variety of materials and different shapes of parts.
- Repeatability: able to maintain consistent machining quality, suitable for mass production.
Materials we can process
With our strong supply chain system, we can provide over 100 materials for you to choose from to meet your various processing needs.
Metals
CNC turning can process a variety of metals, such as aluminum alloy, stainless steel and copper, which are widely used in the automotive, aerospace and electronics industries.
Plastic
CNC turning is suitable for a wide range of plastics, such as polycarbonate and polyformaldehyde, which are commonly used to make lightweight and wear-resistant parts.
Composites
CNC turning can also process carbon fiber and fiberglass composites, suitable for the aerospace and construction industries, providing high strength and lightweight solutions.
Surface Finishes for CNC Turning
For all our CNC machined parts we produce, we have certain standards we ensure for our deburring and primary surface finishes which include smooth machining, bead blasting, brushing, polishing, and brushed and electropolished.
- As Milled – Cutter marks from the CNC turning process will be present. Surface finishing can get at Ra 0.8.
- Anodized – A thin and hard non-conductive coating is added to the surface of the aluminum parts. Parts can be anodized in different colors
- Heavy Bead Blast – this will remove heavier cutter marks and scratches left behind by sandpaper and will have a light texture appearance.
- Smooth Finish – This is typically 600 grit paper and can be polished.
- Powder Coat – Add a strong, wear-resistant, and corrosion-resistant protective polymer coating to the surface of the part. A variety of colors can be used to create the desired aesthetic effect.
CNC turned parts we have machined
We provide CNC turning services for a wide range of industries, producing parts covering precision machine parts, mold parts, automotive parts and aerospace parts to meet the needs of different fields.
Basics Of CNC Turning
CNC Turning Process is a high-precision and high-speed machining way. The automatic lathe machines use digit CNC Turning Service information to control the displacement of parts and tools. Both plastics and metals from bar or block material can get high-speed turning. The turning process can make the production of complex external and internal geometries, including generating all kinds of threads. For round-shaped components such as shafts, worms, and spheres, CNC turning can show its efficiency, while for CNC milling it shows power in other angular shape parts.
CNC turning is quite similar to the CNC milling process. However, unlike CNC millingㅡwhich keeps the workpiece fixed as the cutting tool rotates against itㅡthe cutting tool in a CNC turning machine is held in place as the workpiece rotates against it.
Look at it this way. CNC turning is a process that manufactures parts by “turning a material” against a fixed cutting tool to form the desired shape.
How Does CNC Turning Work?
CNC lathes use subtraction to create the desired shape. After creating the “G code”, load the blank strip into the chuck of the lathe spindle. When the spindle rotates, the chuck fixes the workpiece in place. When the spindle reaches the maximum speed, the stationary cutting tool is brought into contact with the workpiece to remove material until the desired geometry is obtained.
CNC turning is used for any rotationally symmetrical shape, to remove material quickly while leaving an excellent surface finish that sometimes requires no post-processing