Article From: 11/25/2008 Production Machining
Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. designs and builds Amrok ready-to-use dedicated manual fixtures from the ground up for horizontal and vertical machining centers and other CNC machinery.
It can design fixtures with plain faces, special machining, hole patterns, precision bushings and threaded inserts or with precision T-slots.
The company also offers the Triag modular workholding system, along with its own Amflex and other clamping components when designing turnkey manual fixtures. Triag’s modular design allows clamping of small parts in high density by attaching the clamp modules to rails. This rail-based system allows both very high part density in a limited working area and quick-change setups.
Dedicated manual fixtures offer a variety of benefits for customers, including reduced machine setup and cycle times, improved operator safety, improved tolerances resulting from the use of a single fixture as opposed to multiple fixtures and reduced workpiece handling, which in turn can result in increased part production, the company says.
