also benefited from improved tool life because tooling can be set up longer without having to be removed for other operations. Finally, our assembly department has been very happy with the increased quality of what we trim and with our ability to do just- in-time work for them when needed.” On the shop floor, the Carr Lock tech- nology works in conjunction with a Haas Automation VF-6 machining center that is completely dedicated to carbon trim- ming of the UAV components and other carbon projects. The machine operator installs Carr Lock clamps on a carbon trim fixture inside of the VF-6. “For a particularly long UAV part, setup was brutally long and locating was always a challenge,” said Bowman. “With locating features permanently attached to the fixture subplate along with clamping, the whole assembly can be located with a part clamped in about 30 seconds. Each fixture has a primary and secondary bushing pressed in that the clamp passes through for locat- ing. Installation of the bushings is very simple and converting all of our existing fixtures, originally not designed for Carr Lock, were easily retrofitted and put back into use,” Bowman said. The irregular pattern of the receiver bushings in the Carr Lock system allows Flying-S to put fixtures in several different configurations if necessary depending on the trimming requirement for the workpiece. The CNC control contains all the trim programs correlating with those positions and the operator simply needs to load the fixture, load the parts, select the appropriate program in the proper position and be up and running in just a matter of minutes. “We’ve also reduced the tools needed for all the trimming that we do to a tool library that fits within the capacities of the machine,” said Bow- man. “This means that we never need to set up tools for a job. We also love
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