Workholding

Quick-Change Workholding System

The company offers the RMS workholding quick-change system for manual- and power-operated clamping devices. According to the company, the system is designed to allow the fast and accurate change from, for example, power chuck to power operated (via drawbar) mandrels to manual chucks or face drivers. The company supplies a short taper mount receiver, which is permanently installed to the machine spindle.

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Securing A New Process

A Minnesota manufacturer of precision parts boosts productivity by expanding its workholding capacity.

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Holding The Center

Using a collet-type workholding system, a high-volume shop improves accuracy when machining round parts.

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Clamping Difficult Workpieces With Ice

What does a shop do with a workpiece that needs machining but can't be toe-clamped, bolted, chucked or held in a conventional vise? Securely holding many so called exotic materials - ceramics, carbides, glass, and other brittle blanks - is a challenge. The Ice Vice may offer a solution.

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An Intelligent Fixturing System

Have you ever wished for a workholding system that could (1) pick any of a family of parts from an assembly line, (2) identify it, (3) automatically fixture it, and (4) present it precisely oriented to a machine tool for machining or assembly?

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Balancing Workholding Density And Flexibility

Like many contract manufacturers and job shops, this company found itself doing runs that were too short for dedicated fixtures and too long for one-vise setups.

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