page_title: Automatic lathe
hierarchical_section_title: Automatic lathe
caption_attribution_description: A Bullard Mult-Au-Matic of 1914. This machine tool is an automatic lathe of the vertical, multispindle type. It was used in the mass production of turned parts, with the automotive and defense industries being the biggest applications. Today's successors of such machine tools use CNC control (for example, rotary transfer machines).
context_page_description: In metalworking and woodworking, an automatic lathe is a lathe with an automatically controlled cutting process. Automatic lathes were first developed in the 1870s and were mechanically controlled. From the advent of NC and CNC in the 1950s, the term automatic lathe has generally been used for only mechanically controlled lathes, although some manufacturers market Swiss-type CNC lathes as 'automatic'.
  CNC has not yet entirely displaced mechanically automated lathes, as although no longer in production, many mechanically automated lathes remain in service.
context_section_description: In metalworking and woodworking, an automatic lathe is a lathe with an automatically controlled cutting process.  Automatic lathes were first developed in the 1870s and were mechanically controlled. From the advent of NC and CNC in the 1950s, the term automatic lathe has generally been used for only mechanically controlled lathes, although some manufacturers (e.g., DMG Mori and Tsugami) market Swiss-type CNC lathes as 'automatic'.
  CNC has not yet entirely displaced mechanically automated lathes, as although no longer in production, many mechanically automated lathes remain in service.
caption: Bullard Mult-Au-Matic, a vertical, multispindle automatic lathe, 1914.[2]
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