1996 DAEWOO PUMA 12LC CNC LATHES

Technical Description

The Daewoo Puma 12LC is a CNC slant-bed turning center in Daewoo Heavy Industries' Puma 12 series, built in the mid-1990s (this unit dated 1996). It shares its base bed and slide geometry with the wider Puma 12L family: 22.4 in swing over bed, approximately 19 in max turning diameter, 40.2 in max turning length, 42 in distance between centers, 10.2 in X-axis travel and 41.3 in Z-axis travel, with an MT-5 tailstock taper (4.33 in quill diameter, 4.0 in quill travel). Tooling is handled by a 12-station automatic turret with roughly 1-second index time, and the machine is controlled by a Fanuc OT-C CNC with box-way bed construction, RS-232 communication ports, and a programmable hydraulic tailstock. The 'C' suffix in Puma 12LC denotes a higher-torque geared-head spindle variant distinct from the base 12L and 12L-B machines, giving it a different spindle motor rating, bore, and speed range than its siblings; those spindle-specific figures were not independently corroborated for this exact sub-variant and are left blank below pending a second source. Daewoo Heavy Industries' machine tool business was later reorganized as Doosan Infracore (now DN Solutions). No factory brochure for the Puma 12LC was located online; bed/slide geometry above is corroborated across multiple dealer listings for the Puma 12L platform.