Innovative Fixturing: Oil Pan Fixture (Part I) Case Study Transcript

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 usi

inMotion Transcript From: 8/28/2008 Modern Machine Shop

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.

 

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