With a modular fixturing system, savings comes in a variety of forms. The obvious is cost savings in only having to purchase one system for an infinite number of fixtures. However, other benefits include..
Homemade Fixture
No Fixture
Modular Fixture
How often do you have to buy a fixture?
Everytime you make a new part
Never
Once
How long does it take to build a fixture?
1 -2 weeks (if you’re nice to your toolmaker)
The entire shift
Less than a day
How easy it is to make changes to a fixture?
Don’t ask
Depends on how skilled the
welder is
A matter of minutes
Where do you store these fixtures?
Out back, on shelves, in trailers, on the floor…
In your head
On a tooling cart and in a computer (CAD)
What if a job repeats?
After hours of looking, you find a fixture with missing parts
