In recent years, China has gradually ceased mass consumption of numerous mechanical hardware accessories, electronic spare parts, and so on. However, in recent years, the cost of human resources has been increasing, and the cost of employing personnel has also been rising. Young workers are becoming increasingly difficult to manage, and their mobility has greatly increased the consumption cost of enterprises. Once technical workers leave, it will also cause significant losses to the enterprise. Nowadays, numerous manufacturers of various spare parts are adopting automation equipment to improve consumption efficiency and reduce dependence on workers, among which one of the most commonly used categories is automatic lathes. Nowadays, equipping several automatic lathes has played a very important role in improving product processing accuracy and reducing processing costs for mechanical processing enterprises. The application of automatic instrument lathes reduces the dependence on workers and improves consumption efficiency, thereby improving economic benefits.

At present, many domestic machinery companies still use desktop instrument lathes to process mechanical parts. Although this type of instrument lathe is inexpensive, it requires a large amount of skilled manpower to operate. Its production capacity is low, and the machining accuracy is not high. For the processing of large quantities of small parts, the machining efficiency is not high, the machining accuracy cannot be achieved, the labor cost is high, and the efficiency of the enterprise is naturally poor.

Automatic lathes are different from ordinary lathes in that they are controlled by hydraulic or numerical control systems and use pneumatic systems to achieve fully automatic loading and unloading. The development of automatic lathes has a history of many years, starting from Switzerland's consumption of watch parts with walking machines, gradually expanding to cutting machines. Japan also played a significant role in the development of automatic lathes, and their high-precision automatic lathes have made indelible contributions to the improvement of machining accuracy. Since Taiwan, China developed automatic lathes, Taiwan, China's machinery processing industry has developed rapidly. In the past decade, Taiwan, China's automatic lathes have targeted the mainland's machinery processing industry and invested in manufacturing bases in the mainland. Due to the reduction of forming costs and the progress of manufacturing quality, automatic lathes have sprung up like mushrooms in Southeast China.

As an automated processing equipment for small parts, automatic lathes have a higher degree of automation compared to desktop instrument lathes. For example, when processing small parts, one operator can manage multiple automatic lathes at the same time, almost achieving long-term unmanned operation. The production capacity of an automatic lathe per minute can be several times that of a desktop instrument lathe, making it very suitable for processing small parts.

At present, many hardware parts processing enterprises have recognized this problem and are gradually adopting this type of automatic lathe. The scale of the automatic lathe processing industry is rising, which is an effective choice to reduce costs, improve processing quality, and enhance market competitiveness of enterprises. The application of automatic lathes will greatly reduce the dependence of enterprises on workers, improve consumption efficiency, and become increasingly widespread.