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WORKHOLDING RE-IMAGINED with Additive Manufacturing Additive manufacturing produces workholding and fixtures with the precision, toughness, and chemical resistance needed for real-world machining operations. 82% Overall Cost Savings $0 Programming Cost 90% Reduction in Waste Work Safer with Custom Workholding A long-time software customer of ours approached us with an interesting manufacturing challenge. They are a production machining facility that had won a job finish machining a brass nozzle that had been cold formed to near-net shape. The challenge was holding onto the nozzle so the outside diameter and a tapered through hole could be machined. Stock chuck jaws were not going to get the job done; there just wasn’t enough material to safely grip the nozzle in the lathe. So, a custom set of jaws were needed to safely hold the workpiece. Certainly, they could have machined an off-the-shelf set of steal jaws, but we offered them an alternative: a 3D printed set of custom jaws.
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WORKHOLDINGRE-IMAGINEDwith AdditiveManufacturing
Additive manufacturing produces workholding and fixtures with the precision, toughness, and chemical resistance needed for real-world machining operations.
82%Overall Cost Savings
$0Programming Cost
90%Reduction in Waste
Work Safer with Custom WorkholdingA long-time software customer of ours approached us with an interesting manufacturing challenge. They are a production machining facility that had won a job finish machining a brass nozzle that had been cold formed to near-net shape.The challenge was holding onto the nozzle so the outside diameter and a tapered through hole could be machined. Stock chuck jaws were not going to get the job done; there just wasn’t enough material to safely grip the nozzle in the lathe. So, a custom set of jaws were needed to safely hold the workpiece.Certainly, they could have machined an off-the-shelf set of steal jaws, but we offered them an alternative: a 3D printed set of custom jaws.
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AS STRONG AS ALUMINUMUtilizing a unique combination of composite material with continuous carbon fiber reinforcement creates workholding that is strong enough to withstand the forces created during machining.
Machined Lathe Jaws• Could mar or damage part• Requires physical inventory• 20% material waste• Program tool path in CAM
software• Premium cost for complexity
3D Printed Lathe Jaws• Non-marring• Virtual inventory• 2% material waste• Print right from CAD export• No premium for complexity
Switching workholding fabrication from subtractive to additive manufacturing results in faster turnaround, reduced costs, improved efficiency and performance through greater design freedom, and frees up production equipment.
