Workholding
Working Toward Lights-Out Inspection
Contract shop PDQ is developing a process to enable its new CMM to inspect multiple parts unattended, thereby minimizing the impact that part measurement has on the company’s bottom line.
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Rotary Table Handles Small Workpieces
Sharp Industries’ Model SR-6.7 rotary table features a diameter of 6.7" and is designed for optimum handling of small workpieces using the 5C collet and collet closure system.
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Pneumatic Vise Designed for CMM Inspection
The Rapid-Loc pneumatic vise from Phillips Precision holds workpieces for CMM inspection with soft jaws that can be customized to hold virtually any part.
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Line of Workholding Products Expanded
Kurt will feature its DT20 Dovetail vise designed for aggressive five-axis machining.
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Open-Frame Steel Belt Conveyor Improves Safety
PRAB’s heavy-duty open-frame steel belt conveyor is designed to minimize downtime and increase worker safety.
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Changing up From a Manual to an Automatic Pallet Changing System
A Michigan manufacturer describes its progress with pallet-changing systems, advancing from manual to automatic pallet-switching on its VMCs.
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New Jaws Speed Change-Over for Short-Run Jobs
This shop found that a quick-change jaw system reduced 80-minute change-over times to just 8 minutes.
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Live Center Adjusts for Off-Line Center Holes
The Adjusta-Point radial compensating live center from Riten Industries is designed for applications in which a workpiece’s center hole is not quite on center.
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Workholding System Converts Basic Chucks
Hainbuch’s Spanntop high-precision workholding system enables converting the basic chuck for OD, ID and three-jaw clamping operations with a change-over time of 10 sec.
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Adaptable Automation
A system for automatically swapping both workpieces and workholding enables a robot-loaded VMC to be quickly reconfigured for a new or modified job. The same system lets the robot change jobs in the midst of an unattended run. Thanks to the extra capacity from unattended production, the motorcycle part maker that developed this system has finally stopped shipping products late during the busiest part of its year.
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