On the lathe, drills, reamers, taps, dies and knurling tools can also be used for corresponding processing. The function of the lathe is to cut various rotating surfaces of different sizes, shapes and helices.

A lathe is a machine tool that mainly uses turning tools to turn rotating workpieces. Lathe is the most important cutting machine tool in metal cutting machine tools. In general machine manufacturing plants, the number of lathes is the largest, also known as machine tools.