What is the difference between a milling machine and a machining center

Milling machines are a classification of ordinary machine tools. Lifting desktop milling machines, gantry milling machines are more common. Normally, the milling cutter mainly rotates, and the movement of the workpiece and the milling cutter is the feed motion. It can process planes, grooves, and various curved surfaces, gears, etc. The machining center has a high degree of integration due to the participation of the CNC system. It can complete drilling, milling, boring, expanding, reaming, rigid tapping and other processes in one setup.

After the CNC system is applied to the milling machine, it is a CNC milling machine with functions close to the machining center. The essential difference is that the machining center has a tool magazine, and the CNC milling machine does not have a tool magazine. In addition to appearance, there is also a common way of distinguishing that machining centers have more complete implementation standards for product accuracy.