Workholding
Sliding-Jaw Air Chuck Grips Square, Rectangular Parts
Northfield Precision’s Model 870 sliding-jaw air chuck features two moving jaws for gripping square or rectangular parts with 0.0001 TIR.
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Tilting Rotary Table Enables Five-Axis Machining
Calmotion’s TR-7 tilting rotary table enables three-axis vertical machining centers to achieve five-axis machining of complex workpieces and reduce setup time, increasing productivity.
Read MoreFixture Plate System Speeds Visual Inspection
Phillips Precision’s Open-Sight fixture plate system provides lean, quick-change workholding for visual inspection.
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Video: Re-Use Soft Jaws with Expanding Pins
When tool-and-die and contract machine shop Baklund R&D developed a workholding device to solve a challenge with one of its own jobs, the company realized it potentially had a solution that could benefit many other shops as well.
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Quick-Change Chuck Maintains Accuracy
The Quick-Jaw-Change (QJC) power chuck from Samchully Workholding is suitable for both large and small-batch production in job shops with frequent part change-overs.
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Combination Chuck Enables Off-Machine Presetting
The Gripfast Combination Power Chuck from Pratt Burnerd International, a division of 600 UK, provides lathes with a chuck, collet chuck and mandrel chuck in a single unit, available in sizes ranging from 165 to 800 mm.
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Case Study: Chip Conveyors Run Production Efficiently
Hennig chip conveyors on Niigata machining centers maintain efficiencies and production on ductile iron castings used in heavy truck and military drive train projects at this Michigan shop.
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System Enables Fast Fixturing
Carr Lane Manufacturing’s latest 768-page catalog features its Carr LockTM products for fast fixturing.
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VMC Equipped with FSM for Unattended Operation
Okuma will display its vertical machining center equipped with a Palletace flexible manufacturing system (FMS) for unattended operation.
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Clamping Options for Five-Axis Machining
In five-axis machining, the workholding has to get out of the way. The wrong choice of clamping risks collision and can obscure one of the principal benefits of a five-axis machine.
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