Workholding

Workholding

Online Wizard Produces Customized Fixturing Systems

Jergens’ Ball Lock Wizard is an online interactive configurator that provides step-by-step instructions for designing a Ball Lock quick-change fixturing system.

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Workholding

Fail-Safe Collet Block Secures Parts Despite Air Loss

Hardinge’s fail-safe 5C collet block features a spring design to keep parts clamped and maintain concentricity even if loss of air occurs during the machining process.

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Workholding

The Case for Custom Fixturing

Photos of custom fixtures illustrate the types of applications that call for non-standard workholding.

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Workholding

Steel Chucks Available in Large Diameters

Royal Machine has added an 84"-diameter chuck to its line of steel-bodied, manual VTL chucks.

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Upon Further (A3) Review

Using lean manufacturing’s A3 problem-solving process, Genesis Attachments found that magnetic workholding could provide greater benefits than simply getting parts on and off machines faster.

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Workholding

New Generation Rotary Table

The combiFlex system from Peter Lehmann is designed to increase flexibility on the Lehmann 500 rotary-table line.

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Workholding

Miniature Self-Centering Vise Offers Precision Clamping

Schunk’s Tandem KSP+64 is said to be a major development in miniature, self-centering clamping technology.

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Workholding

Five-Axis Vise for Close-Tolerance Repeatability

Kurt's MaxLock vise is designed to hold parts with maximum rigidity for close-tolerance repeatability in all axes.

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Medical

A Big-Picture View of Micromachining

 Matrix Tooling makes injection molds for components that have features you cannot see.

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Automated VMC Fills Capacity Gap

A new Feeler VMC from Methods Machine Tools has not only met this manufacturer’s need for additional capacity, but also taken on more work than initially expected.

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