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This paper describes an automatic sequence control for programming all the movements of a big turret lathe. Special features are the electrohydraulic servo motors for traversing the slides, the method of avoiding long trailing flexible hoses and the arrangements for obtaining accurate repeatability on a large number of different dimensions.
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Nickols, I. (1976). New Developments in Program Control Applied to Big Turret Lathes. In: Koenigsberger, F., Tobias, S.A. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81544-9_34
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