Product category:
Workholding - miscellaneous clamping systems, components
News Release from: Micron Workholding (Microloc) | Subject: MicroLoc 60-series clamps
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 February 2002
Clamping system enables substantial time
saving
A modular, long-stroke clamping system, used in a twin-pallet M-C, does the work in a quarter of the time needed to set up and machine with conventional clamping.
Bimba of Peterborough are a prominent manufacturer of pneumatic actuators in the UK Last year they needed to improve the machining times for the secondary machining of various components in aluminium, brass, and stainless steel
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 23 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Workholding clamps rectangular, round shapes
The MicroLoc workholding system is a versatile, and expandable, means of clamping square, rectangular, or round parts relative to known datum positions.
The initial components were produced on a CNC turning centre as part of a manufacturing work cell.
Bimba turned to MicroLoc Workholding to provide the workholding on a new twin-pallet machining centre.
Production Engineer Kelvin Boyce enthused, "The original set-up using a basic clamping arrangement could take nearly a full shift to produce a single batch or work order.
Utilising the twin-pallet arrangement with (24) MicroLoc 60-series clamps on each, we've achieved a subtantial increase in output, with most work orders being completed in a quarter of the time." "With MicroLoc's strokes being longer than other systems we1ve looked at, we found that by using profiled soft jaws we could quickly reset for components without having to do a tear-down.
Also, with components able to be released with a quarter- to half-a-turn, our operators can reset a pallet much faster than other systems that call for one- to one-and-a-half turns." The improvements in productivity have been so impressive, that Bimba have since purchased an additional MicroLoc set-up for another production area.
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