Why waste your time creating custom fixtures on old machines. Do it on a CNC in a fraction of the time with increased accuracy and repeatability.
TRANSCRIPTION:
Good morning and welcome to another short video highlighting some of the projects we’ve been working on here at contour Tool. Today I wanna talk about something a little different, that doesn’t necessarily get a lot of focus, but it is a very important piece in the manufacturing component parts, and that is the ability to design and manufacture our own fixtures, and we do that in house. Now, some of you say, well, every shop does that. Not necessarily true with the decline of skilled craftsmen or tool makers, we saw this happening a long time ago, and we put in place a lot of the tools and training in order for us to design and manufacture our own fixtures, right on our CNC machines. Today I’m gonna show you out on the shop floor a fixture we just recently completed. We’re currently in setup to manufacture the parts for our customers and we’d like to take a, a look at it and show you what we’ve done and give it some thought for your next parts. Let’s face it, not all parts are round or square. It takes a special fixture in order to hold ’em. So if you join us out on the shop floor, we’ll show you what we got going on.
Okay? We’re standing in one of, part of one of our DMG Moe NHX 4,000 horizontal machining centers. The fixture that we’re talking about is just one. Naturally. This fixture was designed by our engineering department. Mike did a great job on this, but we also machine the fixtures right on our c and C machine. This does several things for us and helps our customers. One, it shows and repeatability of the fixture from one to the other and also shortens up the lead time. Once we got all the raw material in all the socketed cap screws and everything else, we had maybe 35 hours or less machine, all four fixtures. In this particular setup we have pallet one, which we have duplicate fixturing on both sides. And then inside the machine we have Operation two. And it’s the same thing. We have a front and a back. The part we’re gonna be machining actually is odd shaped, so it takes a special fixture. So if you have parts that require special work holdings, give contour tool a try. You’d be surprised and also I think you would be amazed on what we can do here for you. I’d like to thank you for joining me and everyone have a great productive day. Thank you.