Machine Tools

Milling machines comprise one of the largest categories of machine tools with many different varieties and configurations available. A milling machine is considered essential equipment in any machine shop because of its wide variety of machining operations and its high metal removal rates. The workpiece, mounted on a movable machine table, is fed against one or more multiple-tooth rotating tools called milling cutters, or mills. The workpiece is usually held in vises, special holding fixtures, or clamped directly to the machine table and fed at right angles to the axis of the milling cutter to produce flat, recessed, or contoured surfaces.