Custom Design and Workholding Capabilities Improve Efficiency
IMTS 2018: Jergens is demonstrating its expanded custom design and build workholding capabilities.
Edited by Hannah Mason
Jergens is demonstrating its expanded custom design and build workholding capabilities. The effort combines with its existing Fixture-Pro, multi-axis and other workholding products. The company’s custom design and build capabilities improve its time to market and enhance customers’ manufacturing productivity with efficient quick-change products tailored to their specific needs.
Also on display will be the company’s top tooling; a line of pallets, risers, receivers and adapter; and a range of the company’s quick-change workholding products including Ball Lock, Drop and Lock, Fixture-Pro, Zero-Point System (ZPS) and OK Vise. A robotic demonstration featuring a Toshiba TVL 700 will also be on display to demonstrate the products’ use in automation. The company’s multi-axis, 130-mm self-centering vise, and line of pallets, cubes, and rotary receivers will also be on display.
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