Design of Fixtures: A Review

Mechanical Engineering

Fixture is widely used to locate and support the workpiece in various industries. It is used for assembly, inspection and testing, heat treatment or mainly in manufacturing industry. While designing the fixture main purpose is to minimize the workpiece deformation due to clamping and cutting forces which is essential to maintain the machining accuracy. It can be achieved by selecting the optimum location or clamps and locators. Nowadays so much attention has already been paid to the research of computer aided fixture design (CAFD). Various methodology used for computer aided fixture design and also finding the optimum location of fixturing elements are reviewed in this paper

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