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Workholding
Bolt-On Productivity
Retrofitting an auxiliary pallet changer allowed this shop to get 'horizontal-like' production efficiency out of a vertical machining center.
Read MoreGetting High Part Yield, Rigid Part Clamping And Low Workholding Cost
JBJ Manufacturing mostly machines heavy parts of iron and steel used in drive trains and other systems for construction and agricultural equipment. The parts range from an inch square to parts longer than two feet. The company machines them in runs of just four or five parts up to 500 pieces. To be efficient and profitable with this kind of work, JBJ needed to take a creative approach with its workholding to be fast and flexible.
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Get A Grip On Process Improvements
Innovative workholding solutions help you hold onto productivity and profit in a machining process. Five new ideas show the value of creative clamping and fixturing.
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Flexibility Is A Vise
The ubiquitous table vise is more than a fixture in metalworking shops. It's a necessity. Like the machine tools they attach to, metalworking vises have had their share of technical advances aimed at extending the flexibility of these popular workholders.
Read MoreA Tool To Help With Jaw Boring
Machining soft jaws remains one of the most tedious and time-consuming tasks for turning centers, so anything you can do to organize and simplify this task will speed up your setups. In order to make the workholding setup when soft jaws must be machined, the setup person must remove the current top tooling from the chuck, find the set of jaws to be used for the new setup, mount the jaws to the chuck, clamp on some form of temporary plug or ring, and machine the jaws.
Read MoreShort Bar Loader Helps Job Shop Meet Tolerance Specs And Throughput Goals
Maintaining high accuracy and repeatability in production parts requires precision workholding systems as well as precision machine tools. To help machine a particularly complex, high volume part, the company has installed magazine short bar load systems to complement production lathes.
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Quick Change Turns Time Into Money
Quick-change chuck jaws make undeniable sense for any kind of high-mix lathe production. This shop finds them the right choice for medium-run and family-of-parts production too.
Read MoreAccuracy Achieved By Milling On A Magnet
Trilogy Systems ran into a major manufacturing hurdle as the length of its motors increased. The linear motor body comprises a U-section made up of three precision-machined mild-steel plates into which the magnets and coil assembly for the motor are installed.
Read MoreUpgrading Machinery With Power Chuck Results In One Minute Changeover
W. A. Whitney is given as an example of a company that takes selection of machine accessories seriously. Considering that machine speeds are close or at their maximum potential, major productivity increases may only come from elimination of changeover downtime.
Read MoreFace Driver Improves Manufacturing Process Without Raising Price
Logansport Matsumoto Co., (LMC) in Logansport, Indiana, manufactures and repairs hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders, international-style high speed chucks, Neidlein face drivers and rotary tables for the machine tool industry.
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