What are the common automatic tool change methods for vertical milling center CNC machining centers?

To put it simply, the vertical milling center, like other CNC milling processing equipment, has the ability to efficiently process complex curved workpieces and special-shaped contour workpieces. It also has the advanced function of automatically changing processing tools. With the help of this processing feature, the machine tool can realize automatic transfer processing of various types of workpieces, especially multi-process complex workpieces. The workpiece can be processed on a single processing equipment, and the processing content of its drilling, milling, boring, reaming and tapping can be completed automatically, so that some people say that the vertical milling center is a multi-functional intelligent processing equipment vertical The reason why the milling center has the above-mentioned higher automatic processing capabilities is that in addition to the control device of the machine tool and the processing program of the workpiece, the hardware is mainly configured with two parts: a tool magazine and an automatic tool change device. With the tool magazine, the processing tools of each process of the workpiece can be better stored and managed. The automatic tool change mechanism enables the machine tool to replace the corresponding processing tools of the cutting process in time when each process is completed. They are independent of each other. And an indivisible whole. The tool change mechanism is also different depending on the tool magazine configuration of the machine tool. This article briefly introduces the common automatic tool change methods and their characteristics of vertical milling center. According to the different vertical milling center forms and processing requirements, the common tool magazines mainly include hat type tool magazines, disc manipulator tool magazines, chain tool magazines and so on. The corresponding tool changing methods can be divided into direct tool changing methods, manipulator tool changing methods and turret head methods.