# Classification and Types of Machine Tools #
A machine tool is a device used to make or shape metal or other material pieces. It is also known as a working machine or tool machine. Drilling apparatus, lathes, shapers and planers, milling apparatus, power saws, and grinders are a few examples of machine tools that manufacture parts by removing metal chips from a workpiece.
Punch presses are used for cold shaping metal components like kitchenware, car bodywork, and other similar goods, whereas forging presses are used for hot forming white-hot blanks into precisely shaped dies.
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**Machine Tool Parts**
The machine tool is made up of various distinct parts, each of which serves a specific purpose. The base or bed, worktable, headstock, machine column, machine tool, saddle, foundation or channel, etc. are some examples of these parts.
**Base or Bed:** It serves as a base or bed for supporting other components. The moving plate, head block, compound knife block, tailstock, and other components on the bed are supported by the base.
**Worktable:** The workpiece is supported by the worktable. It is an adjustable bed with a horizontally movable saddle.
**Machine Column:** To enhance the structure of huge machines, bones are inserted into the machine column. Its purpose is to guide the head base.
**Headstock:** The machine’s headstock can rotate the workpiece or move and provide the cutting tool.
**Machine Tools Types**
The name of the machine tool is based on the combined unit’s construction. Lathes, horizontal boring mills, sharpeners and planers, milling machines, vertical lathes, cylindrical grinders, floor-type milling & boring mills, multi-spindle drilling mills, bench drilling mills, moving crossbeam machining centers, etc. are types of machine tools.
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**Machine tool production capability-based classifications**
**Production Machine Tools:** It is utilized for manufacturing and is marginally more productive than general-purpose machine tools.
**Single Purpose Machine Tool:** They are utilized in extremely automated production processes with high production rates. They are not very adaptable.
**General Purpose Machine Tools:** They are practically applicable to any application, but their production speed is relatively slow.
**Classification based on cutting in machine Tools**
**Multiple points cutting Tools:** They have many cutting edges, such as those on drills, milling cutters, hacksaws, and other tools.
**Single point cutting tools:** A tool used in turning on a lathe only has one cutting edge. If the user compares it to multi-point cutting tools, the user can see how tough it is to understand.
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