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摘要

A machining center or system for shaping workpieces, having a numerical controller (NC) for transmitting control commands in accordance with input data. A principal tool has a tool holder and a numerically controlled machining feed unit for shaping a workpiece under the numerical commands. A tool storage station accepts a plurality of formed machining tools and a tool changing mechanism interconnects the tool storage station and the principal machine tool. The center incorporates a tool reforming station which responds to a set of numerical commands from the NC unit to act on a formed machining tool when on one of the tool storage station, the tool changing mechanism and the tool holder in the principal machine tool. The tool reforming station includes at least one subsidiary machine tool with a machining feed unit operative under another set of numerical commands from the NC unit to reform the formed machining tool by commanded dimensions for transfer or re-transfer into the shaping zone in the principal machine tool.