This is an automotive oil pan fixture. It is similar to the video that
you watched earlier showing the tip axis or rotate axis that we've
incorporated onto some of our fixtures. This is a one-position fixture
and it looks rather complicated; you see an awful lot of hydraulic
lines on there. Obviously, we're using our Continuous Pressure
Hydraulics, but the reason for those hydraulic lines is that this is,
as I mentioned a second ago, uses one of those tipping fixtures.
There's a dipstick feature on this oil pan that's at a compound angle.
We machine the part straight up and down; at that point we actuate the
CPH through M-codes in the CNC program, which releases the fixture,
tips it around, relocks it back in position, and we're able to, with
using our B axis, the table axis on the machine, in conjunction with
this axis on the fixture, we're able to machine the dipstick hole on
this part without repositioning or having a second operation. This
particular fixture has to know which position its in; the machine needs
to know which position the fixture is in, the straight up-and-down
position or the rotated position, so we're using our error detect
through CPH to determine, to basically verify the position of the
fixture so that the machine control and the system control knows
exactly where it is at all times.






