In today’s manufacturing environment, there are many workholding options to choose from, each with its own pros and cons. Many shops will have a variety of different workholding setups depending on the needs of the various workpieces they are manufacturing.
However, utilizing a variety of different styles of workholding to hold your workpiece can lead to increased setup time, complex operations and difficult training requirements. Standardizing your workholding setup can result in reduced setup times, improved part quality, higher productivity and easier onboarding.
An emerging option for standardizing workholding is to integrate zero-point workholding. This may look daunting from the outset, but this guide will provide an overview of the benefits, challenges and tasks required to successfully make this change.
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