Leveraging the precise control of our CNC systems, our CNC metal lathes efficiently plan toolpaths, enabling automated, standardized batch processing. Whether you’re looking for small-batch pilot production or large-scale continuous production, our equipment maintains highly stable and consistent machining accuracy, can significantly reduce errors caused by human intervention, helping you improve yield and overall productivity.
Our lathes are suitable for precision turning of a wide range of metal parts, serving a wide range of industries, including automotive parts, mold components, aviation components, medical equipment, and industrial customization. Whether you’re facing complex structures, high-dimensional accuracy, or extreme efficiency demands, we offer customizable, low-maintenance, and long-term stable solutions.
OTURN specializes in the research and development and production of CNC metal lathes, with over a decade of industry manufacturing experience. Our products serve over 20 industries worldwide, widely used in automotive parts, general machinery, aerospace, medical devices, and other fields requiring extremely high precision and efficiency.
Whether you’re mass-producing shafts or manufacturing complex precision parts, we offer stable, reliable, and market-proven CNC turning solutions for your production line. We not only support flexible customization of parameters such as dimensions and structure, but also integrate features like automatic feeding, powered turrets, and sub-spindles to meet your process needs, helping you easily transition from small-batch trial production to automated mass production.
To meet diverse customer needs, we offer one-stop customization services: bed length, spindle bore, tailstock travel, and other structural dimensions can be flexibly adjusted to meet your product size and process requirements, enabling stable machining of long shafts or large-diameter workpieces. For demanding cutting forces and efficiency, we also offer high-torque spindles, servo drive systems, and high-rigidity roller guides, ensuring both powerful cutting and high precision.
If you already have a preliminary plan or structural drawings, please submit them to us. Our engineering team will assist you in optimizing the design and recommend the most suitable spindle speed, feed rate, and coolant solution, depending on factors such as material properties, machining cycle, and precision requirements. We will ensure that we can provide you with the most satisfactory CNC metal machine tool solution.
Big Bore Spindle
When machining large-diameter bars, pipes, or heavy workpieces, the spindle aperture often determines the machine’s adaptability. We are able to customize large-aperture spindle structures for our customers. These structures do not just provide stable gripping of large-diameter materials but also handle complex machining conditions like threading and long shaft machining. This significantly improves the machine’s versatility and clamping efficiency, so it can be quite suitable for batch machining of oil pipe fittings, hydraulic components, and mechanical spindles.
Automatic Feeding System
To meet customer demand, we support the configuration of various automatic loading and unloading modules, such as bar feeders and truss loading and unloading systems. After automation integration, the equipment can realize a complete set of closed-loop operations from raw material loading, workpiece positioning, automatic clamping, processing, and unloading. This can not only efficiently reduce labor costs but also improve operational stability and single-piece cycle efficiency. Whether pursuing capacity release or process consistency, it is an ideal choice.
Power Turret Expansion
For complex, multi-step machining of parts, we offer an optional high-rigidity powered turret system, enabling single-clamping operations such as turning, side milling, face drilling, tapping, and spiral grooving. This not only reduces machine changeover time and positioning errors, but it can also significantly improve dimensional consistency and cycle control across multiple batches of parts.
Automated Mass Production Can Be Achieved
CNC metal lathes not only offer high-precision turning capabilities but also enable true mass production and high efficiency through automated configuration. Equipped with automatic feeding systems (such as bar feeders or gantry loading and unloading systems), powered turrets, and multi-channel CNC systems, our equipment automates the entire process, from raw material infeed to finished product unloading, eliminating the need for human intervention and significantly reducing labor costs. Whether performing repetitive machining of thousands of pieces or producing a wide variety of products in small or medium batches, CNC metal lathes ensure consistent dimensions and stable precision for each workpiece, while also improving changeover response time.
In CNC metalworking, lathe rigidity often determines the stability and machining quality of the entire production line. To meet the demanding demands of high torque, high feed rates, and long continuous operation, we have specially optimized the structural platform, from the bed to the key transmission units, to comprehensively enhance the rigidity and vibration resistance of the entire machine. We utilize ultra-wide 800mm reinforced guideways, coupled with a thickened, one-piece cast bed structure, to effectively absorb vibrations caused by high-load cutting, significantly improving machining stability and surface finish. Key load-bearing components (for example, the headstock, tool carriage, and tailstock) are all constructed from high-strength cast iron and undergo a rigorous secondary aging treatment to ensure maintaining dimensional accuracy and guideway straightness even under long-term operation. Even at high cutting speeds and feed rates, the machine maintains consistent rigidity, adapting to a wide range of machining tasks, from high-hardness steel and large-diameter shafts to high-volume, heavy-duty turning. This structural foundation not only guarantees consistent workpiece precision but also helps customers significantly extend tool life, reduce machine adjustments, and raise overall production line efficiency.
In modern production lines striving for maximum machining efficiency, the ability of a single machine to simultaneously perform multiple machining tasks directly impacts both production capacity and unit cost. We support integrated multi-channel CNC control systems, enabling your CNC metal lathe to control two channels, operating synchronously or independently. Whether operating in a main spindle + subspindle configuration, dual toolholder linkage, or combined milling and turning configurations, the system flexibly allocates machining commands and servo drives, significantly reducing process change times and improving workpiece completion efficiency.
CNC metal lathes are built for precision and productivity—especially when it comes to turning all types of rotating metal parts. Whether you’re producing one-off custom shafts or scaling up for mass production of standard components, our machines are designed to deliver both cutting accuracy and long-term efficiency in one setup.
For shaft-type parts like motor shafts, drive shafts, lead screws, or spline shafts, where tight concentricity and surface finish matter most, our lathes allow you to complete both roughing and finishing in a single clamping. This not only improves precision but also reduces cycle time significantly.
If you’re working with disc- or ring-shaped parts—like flanges, brake discs, gear blanks, or bearing rings—our lathes can be equipped with live tooling to handle drilling, chamfering, tapping, and other direct manipulation on the end face, eliminating the need for secondary setups.
When it comes to threads, our CNC lathes support everything from standard metric and imperial threads to more complex profiles like trapezoidal or tapered threads. With programmable pitch control and automatic retraction, you get repeatable, high-consistency threading every time.
For parts with inner bores, such as copper sleeves or stainless steel housings, we offer machines capable of boring, threading, and chamfering in one process—ideal for hydraulic components or bushing manufacturers who demand strict tolerances, and the surface smoothness is also well guaranteed.
And if your production includes complex or asymmetrical profiles, our machines can be configured with Y-axis and live tool turrets to enable multi-axis turning and milling. This makes them key parts for high-precision applications in medical device manufacturing or optical equipment.
Finally, for long pipes or bar stock, our CNC metal lathes can be equipped with big-bore spindles and automatic bar feeders, guaranteeing stable and continuous machining of thick-walled or extended-length parts. This is the key in industries like oilfield equipment, heavy machinery, or hydraulic system manufacturing.
Juxtapose CNC Metal Lathes (CNC Metal Lathes) have notable advantages in logical precision, automation, and adaptability, making them particularly suitable for current B-end manufacturing scenarios that pursue high quality and high stability. The following are several core advantages: Higher and more consistent machining accuracy.
Traditional lathes rely on manual operation, which can easily lead to errors in machining dimensions. CNC lathes, on the other hand, are program-controlled and offer high repeatability and positioning accuracy, achieving micron-level precision, remarkable product consistency, and making them particularly suitable for parts requiring extremely high precision, such as those in the aviation, medical, and military sectors. They support complex surfaces and multi-process machining.
Conventional lathes primarily process straight lines and circular arcs, while CNC Metal Lathes can be equipped with a powered turret, Y-axis linkage system, tailstock, tool setter, and more. They support multi-process machining, including turning, milling, drilling, and tapping, all in a single clamping operation, significantly improving machining efficiency and quality.
CNC metal lathes enable automated mass production. Equipped with an automatic bar feeder, gantry robot, or connection system, they automate the entire process from feeding, processing, and discharging. This makes them suitable for 24/7 unmanned processing for medium and large enterprises, helping customers reduce workers’ costs and increase production capacity. Programmable control makes operation and switching easy. Unlike traditional manual lathes, which are heavily dependent on skilled labor, CNC lathes are primarily programmable.
Even small-batch orders with frequent product structure changes can be quickly responded to through rapid program switching, reducing changeover costs.
They are more adaptable to the needs of complex parts and mass production. CNC metal lathes offer far superior stability and versatility than conventional lathes, capable of handling heavy-duty machining tasks such as high-hardness materials, high-intensity cutting, and large-diameter shafts. For OEMs or Tier 1 component suppliers seeking stable delivery date and to improve quality, CNC metal lathes are key equipment for production line upgrades.
- What is the Longest Workpiece Length Your CNC metal Lathe Can Process?
Standard models support workpiece lengths ranging from 500mm to 3000mm, suitable for most shaft and rod parts. We also offer custom solutions with 4000mm, 5000mm, and even longer bed lengths, suitable for machining extra-long workpieces such as wind turbine spindles and hydraulic cylinders.
- What Diameters Can Your CNC metal Machines Process? What Is Their Maximum Swing Diameter?
The maximum swing diameter of standard models typically ranges from Ø300mm to Ø800mm. For customers requiring machining of large flanges, discs, or mold outer diameters, we can also customize machining ranges of Ø1000mm, Ø1200mm, or even larger.
- What Is the Spindle’s Through-Hole Diameter? How Thick a Bar or Tube Can It Thread?
We offer a variety of spindle specifications, including standard through-hole sizes of Ø52mm, Ø66mm, and Ø80mm. If you need to process larger-diameter bar stock or thick-walled steel pipes, we also offer spindles with larger through-hole sizes of Ø100mm, Ø130mm, or Ø160mm or larger, suitable for automated loading or tube threading.
