Jig & Fixture
Jig and Fixture designing readily available for your next project, or even to revisit an older product.
Are your jigs and fixtures the best design available? Do they offer the best balance between design, machining, and part load/unloading?
We strive to design the best workholding solutions for your machinery
We pride ourselves on fixtures which can take abuse and continue their productive life cycle without down time.
A common misconception is that a fixture only has one purpose, to hold a part. Many responsibilities are designed into a work-holding solution beyond holding a part, and to ignore any facet of those responsibilities is lost time. The more cycles a machine can run in a day is the difference between profit and loss.
Most importantly is the ability to load part after part and have consistent positioning everytime. Any positional error between loading increases the possibility of a failed product. We offer a design which can take damage and continue a productive life cycle.
Secondly, any holding technique must offer the best solution for efficient machining. The more machining you can do between mounting a product, the more efficient your overall time becomes. Strive for high efficiency workholding solutions while also maintaining the simplest forms for your setup and operating personnel. A designing feat most designs fail.
The last main challenge we face is the ability to load and unload products from fixturing easily, consistently, and reliably. Personnel are the most expensive cog in any company and are often misjudged in productivity improvements. The greatest fixture can be brought down by the simplest issue of loading a part. If loading is difficult operators will feel frustration and down time will increase. Each fixture must remember the personnel and maintain the best ergonomic solutions for them while maintaining the best machining abilities for you.
These are just three facets of workholding solutions we face head on.
Our engineers, programmers, and fixture designers sit down together for every job to find a common ground to produce the best design available.