ReadOS / Manufacturing
Tooling, Jigs and Fixtures
Practical approaches to fixtures, tooling, machining and repeatable manufacture.
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- 01Choosing a cutting process for plate and sheet: laser, plasma, oxy-fuel, waterjet, sawing and punchingThe cutting process decides edge quality, accuracy, heat effects, downstream work and cost. How laser, plasma, oxy-fuel, waterjet, EDM, sawing and punching compare, and how to choose.
- 02Cutting lead time with flow and pull: batch sizes, work in progress, cells and kanbanMost of a job's lead time is spent waiting, not being worked on. How work in progress, batch size and utilisation drive lead time, and how flow, cells and pull signals shorten it.
- 03Designing jigs and fixtures that pay for themselves: locating, clamping, mistake-proofing and the business caseA good fixture makes the right way the easy way. How to locate parts on datums, clamp without distortion, build in mistake-proofing, design for welding and people, and judge the payback.
- 04Designing parts that are economical to machine: set-ups, features, tolerances and cutting economicsMachining cost is set by set-ups, cutting time, tooling and tolerances, most of which the designer controls. Practical design rules and the cutting economics behind a fair price.
- 05Designing plastic parts for injection moulding: walls, draft, ribs, bosses, gates and toolingInjection moulding makes cheap parts from expensive tools, so design errors are costly. How to set walls, draft, ribs and bosses, plan gates and shrinkage, and make sound tooling decisions.
- 06Storing machine and sensor data in manufacturing: historians, time-series databases and data engineers can useMachines and sensors produce millions of readings a day. How to collect, timestamp, name, compress, store and secure them, and link them to production context so they answer real questions.
- 07Welded joints for fabricators: processes, design, procedures, qualification and inspectionGood welds come from a system, not just a skilled hand. How to choose the process, specify joints, control procedures and qualifications, manage distortion and inspect to the right level.
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