Intelligent fixturing reduces costs. (technology trends).

Fixturing is an expensive notwithstanding critical step in high-volume, close-tolerance production of parts, especially in the automotive industry. When holding a part in place, a fixture must be custom fitted to each part, making changeovers deliberate and expensive.
Lamb Technicon Machining combination of parts to form a wholes a division of California-based Unova Inc., has unraveled an Intelligent Fixturing System (IFS) that tenders a versatile alternative -- rather than building a custom-clamping device for each part, each IFS fixture adapts itself to a range of different parts. The IFS fixture automatically calculates