Although composites offer many benefits, the historically high costs and long cycle times required for manufacturing components from complex, fiber-reinforced materials have been and remain a ...

If you’ve ever done any small production runs of anything that needs a bit of assembly, you know that jigs and fixtures are a huge time saver. However, these usually need to be mounted, which means ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE Patrick Wittig operates Mapal’s Uniset-P, ...

When I visit production floors, from aerospace hangars in Wichita to automotive plants in Detroit, I hear a common refrain: “We can’t afford any more uncertainty.” Our customers aren’t referring to ...

Holding fixtures, jigs, trim tools and metal-forming dies can be expensive elements of post-mold composite part processing and assembly. Designing and building such tools can be an expensive and ...

COMMERCE TOWNSHIP -- Commerce Township-based Reshamca LLC says it has teamed up with Livonia-based O. Keller Tool Engineering Co. to provide a complete assembly fixture and tooling program for the new ...

I was in a fit of nerd glee the first time I used tooling board. I’d used MDF for similar purposes before, and I doubt I ever will again. Called Renshape, Precision Board Plus, or that green stuff ...

Our frequent correspondent has delivered three useful examples of fixtures, designed in the machine shop and their effects for a specific workholding task: “In the first example, the fixture was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on the industrialization of additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing (AM/3D printing) is bringing change to ...

Grand Rapids, Mich. — Superior Tooling Inc. founder Robbie Earnhardt enjoyed his high school shop class so much, he saved money from a neighborhood job to buy a used lathe to do contract work in the ...

Ford Motor has been granted a patent for a battery module locating tool. The tool includes a support pillar and multiple fixtures that can individually move along the pillar to position a battery cell ...