What makes a turret lathe relevant nearly a century after they were created is the fact you can run two tools into the work at the same time, even 3 or 4 with proper setup, while a cnc generally will only use one. In 11 minutes we true the blank and square it off to length, and put 3 bore diameters onto it as well as a o ring groove. All to within .005. Once the parts have had a day to cool will bore the critical diameters to within .0005 on this same machine in about one minute. Then on to the second operation