What is workholding and why is it important? Workholding is how stock is held during operations on CNC mills and lathes. Unlike in CAD, parts don’t just float in 3D space. Something needs to grab onto ...

Workholding for Multi-Axis CNC Machines provides an overview of common workholding devices and adapters for multi-axis CNC machines. Multi-axis machines have a greater range of motion and more cutting ...

HWR WORKHOLDING USA announced multiple additions to its SOLIDLine family of zero-point workholding. Available immediately, the new products include SOLIDGrip MAXX for large workpieces; SOLIDBolt FLEXX ...

When milling thin-walled parts, time is consumed to create fixtures and plugs to secure parts. Using our workholding technology, the Flux Capacitor, we have significantly reduced the setup effort for ...

We optimized the design of a previous team to create an adaptive workholding fixture that uses a series of magnetic Halbach arrays and an engagement mechanism which lifts the array. The ferrofluid ...

At Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Institute, researchers use a robotic test bed where AMRs deliver Lego bricks to robot arms for assembly to study AI, multirobot collaboration, ...