Examples of lathe in the following topics:
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- This category would include the physical plant of a manufacturer (boilers, lathes, blast furnaces, elevators, and conveyor systems).
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- Equipment and labor can be organized into departments such as drilling, punch press, lathe, machining, painting, heat treating, molding, etc.
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- Historically important machine tools are the screw-cutting lathe, milling machine, and metal planer (metalworking), which all came into use between 1800 and 1840.
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- The grouping of all milling machines into one department or the placing of lathes in another department is illustrative of departmentation by equipment or process.