Se denomina mandrinadora a una máquina herramienta que se utiliza para el mecanizado de agujeros de piezas cúbicas que deben tener una tolerancia muy estrecha y una calidad de mecanizado buena. Este tipo de máquinas está compuesto por una bancada donde hay una mesa giratoria para fijar las piezas que se van a mecanizar, y una columna vertical por la que se desplaza el cabezal motorizado que hace girar al husillo portaherramientas donde se sujetan las barrinas de mandrinar. Cuando se madrinan piezas cúbicas, éstas se fija en la mesa de trabajo de la máquina, y lo que gira es la herramienta de mandrinar sujeta al husillo de la máquina, y donde se le imprime la velocidad adecuada de acuerdo con las características del material constituyente de la herramienta y el avance axial adecuado.

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In machining, boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled (or cast), by means of a single-point cutting tool (or of a boring head containing several such tools), for example as in boring a gun barrel or an engine cylinder. Boring is used to achieve greater accuracy of the diameter of a hole, and can be used to cut a tapered hole. Boring can be viewed as the internal-diameter counterpart to turning, which cuts external diameters. There are various types of boring. The boring bar may be supported on both ends (which only works if the existing hole is a through hole), or it may be supported at one end (which works for both through holes and blind holes). Lineboring (line boring, line-boring) implies the former. Backboring (back boring, back-boring) is the process of reaching through an existing hole and then boring on the "back" side of the workpiece (relative to the machine headstock). Because of the limitations on tooling design imposed by the fact that the workpiece mostly surrounds the tool, boring is inherently somewhat more challenging than turning, in terms of decreased toolholding rigidity, increased clearance angle requirements (limiting the amount of support that can be given to the cutting edge), and difficulty of inspection of the resulting surface (size, form, surface roughness). These are the reasons why boring is viewed as an area of machining practice in its own right, separate from turning, with its own tips, tricks, challenges, and body of expertise, despite the fact that they are in some ways identical. The first boring machine tool was invented by John Wilkinson in 1775. Boring and turning have abrasive counterparts in internal and external cylindrical grinding. Each process is chosen based on the requirements and parameter values of a particular application.

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