Get a Grip on Your Workholding Processes
From adhesive fixturing to automated changeovers, these articles show how shops are rethinking workholding to improve efficiency and accuracy. Whether it's collet choice, custom fixtures, or balancing density with simplicity, smarter setups are driving better results.
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From simplifying setups with adhesive fixturing to fully automating workholding changeovers, these articles explore how shops are rethinking how they hold parts to improve efficiency, accuracy, and throughput. Whether it’s choosing the right collet for Swiss backworking, increasing density without sacrificing simplicity, or designing custom solutions for medical machining, today’s workholding strategies are all about boosting productivity without over complicating the process.
Fixturing Castings Made Simple Through Adhesive Workholding
Learn how Thomas/Euclid Industries adopted — and succeeded with — Blue Photon adhesive workholding.
VIDEO: Swiss Shop’s Choice of Collets Facilitates Backworking
Find out how this Swiss shop discovered workholding collets that satisfy the needs of its very small, delicate and complex medical parts production on the subspindle, making once impossible processes not only doable but more efficient and aesthetically pleasing.
Prioritizing Workholding Density Versus Simplicity
In this article, columnist John Miller helps a reader determine when it makes sense to increase parts per fixture and when to keep it simple.
Automating Complete Workholding Changeovers for Turning
Learn how Hainbuch America Corporation is utilizing robotic loading of all workholding elements for their CNC turning centers.
Navigating Large-Scale CNC Machining: Suburban Tool’s Niche Strategy to Stay Competitive
Facing increasing competition from lower-cost imports, Suburban Tool made a move toward large-scale, in-house machining. Learn how the company has strengthened its ability to control quality and protect its reputation.
Starting Small with Automation
Discover how Zelos Zerspanung kickstarted its success with quick-change workholding and flexible robotic automation.
Custom Workholding Shaves Days From Medical Part Setup Times
In this article, we dive into how custom workholding enabled Resolve Surgical Technologies to place all sizes of one trauma part onto a single machine — and cut days from the setup times.
Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind
New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.
Workholding 101
Tooling and machines may be the flashy highlights of manufacturing, but workholding is just as important to successful production. This article takes us through some workholding basics.
What’s the Right Bar Feeder for Your Machine Shop?
Bar feeders play an important part in workholding. Machine shops likely have questions about what type of bar feeder makes most sense for their operational needs. Let this article “guide” your decision.
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