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6. Glossary
Usinage; machining
Shaping by material removal.
Blow; cutting
Cutting tool machining (milling, turning, drilling, broaching, tapping, planing, reaming, etc.).
Abrasion; abrasive machinings
High-hardness abrasive grain machining (grinding, honing, lapping, polishing, shot-peening or sandblasting, abrasive waterjet machining, ultrasonic machining; the last two are non-traditional machining processes).
Usinages physicochimiques; physico-chemical machinings
Machining by electrical discharge in a dielectric (electroerosion), plasma torch, flashlight effect (oxycutting), laser or electron beam, electrochemical or chemical reaction, water jet. These are all non-traditional machining processes.
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Production trends for metalworking machine tools
As mentioned above, Europe is one of the world's major machine tool production (and utilization) zones. Figures for the period 1980-2006 (figure 1 and table
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