Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Yoichi Togawa

Takahide Tokawa

To provide a method of controlling a machine tool and a machine tool which allow preventing relieving interference without using a mechanism for causing an offset between a cutter () and a workpiece (), a controller () performs control such that the workpiece () is machined by repeating the steps of: machining the workpiece () by moving the cutter () for machining the workpiece () in a direction parallel to a rotational axis of the cutter () while rotating the workpiece () together with the cutter (); and returning the cutter () to a machining start position again after termination of the machining step, and performs offset control such that the cutter () is moved away from the workpiece () in a rotation direction of the cutter () upon the termination of the machining step.

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Ritto, Japan

Yoichi Togawa