tooling.” However, he said, FixturePro, which is now Jergens’ fastest growing product line, takes the guesswork out of fi ve- axis fi xturing, offering a combination of standard components designed to work with one another that can be swapped out on-the-go.
“They don’t have to manufacture their own risers, worry about tolerances or repeatability between set ups or machines. There is a lot to consider, so we’ve tried to take those variables out of the equation. You know what the stack up and tolerances are going to be, and the repeatability you can get, from one setup to another.”
All of this helps to reduce setup time, which is an area of cost savings that seasoned manufacturers are now attack- ing, given that they’ve taken excess cost out of many other areas of their business. “More and more people are beginning to look at setup time as an area where there is a lot of time to be saved,” Kieta said. “We fi nd that two hours of setup time is pretty easy to fi nd, particularly with cus- tomers who are running shorter batches with more changes.”
“There’s a lot to consider when you’re working various machines, and you don’t
want to have to worry about tolerances. We’ve tried to take those variables out of the equation.”
Kieta noted that Jergens also will build custom fi ve-axis workholding so- lutions to meet specifi c requirements and bring tolerances and repeatability into an even more specifi c range. Another benefi t to the FixturePro system and the Drop & Lock Pallet
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