mm and six jaws. Another offering is the IEP-D specialty chuck, which has a size range of 500–800 mm and also has six jaws. SMW markets IEP-D as a way for “clamping thin-walled parts” and the SLC chucks as a way to clamp “deformation sensitive components.”
Faster Changes
One of Hainbuch America’s priorities is to enable faster changes of equip- ment to minimize downtime. Hainbuch’s Woods said its compo- nents “allow virtually any part to be run on any machine in a manufacturer’s facility.” For example, he said, some chucks can be changed in less than two minutes by a machine operator without special tools while “entire work- ing holding systems can be changed on a machine in less than five minutes.”
“It doesn’t matter
whether it’s us or anybody else. Everybody’s work- holding is getting more and more complex.”
“Best practices in today’s manufac- turing plants include the ability to react to shorter product runs and changing customer demands quickly and ac- curately,” he said.
Hainbuch also has moved to
improve “the vulcanization process for clamping heads and allow them to withstand today’s aggressive cutting fluids better,” Woods said.
The company said its TOPlus line of workholding components uses “vibration dampening compounds and a hexagonal design” that creates more clamping force to hold parts more securely and enhance surface finishes. The company also says TOPlus was designed to deal with difficult-to-ma- chine materials.
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