Flexible Fixtures for Parts Machining in Automobile Industry

Fixtures play an essential role in production of high-quality and competitive products, especially under conditions of multiproduct manufacturing, which requires quickly re-equipment while transferring to the machining of parts of other nomenclature. Nowadays, the multiproduct manufacturing is the basic form of organization in the manufacturing and automobile industries. The article describes the ways of increasing of machining efficiency of parts of automobile industry at the contracting organizations, which are parts of automakers or work closely with them. For increasing the machining efficiency through the use of approaches to intensification of production, and also for performed analysis of locating charts for the majority of parts, which are included to the construction of machines, the principally new constructions of functional modules of modular adjustable fixtures for locating and clamping of parts are used. Use of the proposed construction with the possibility of automatized adjustment ensures the spreading of technological possibilities of metal-cutting equipment, decreasing of preparatory time and setup time, and therefore, assists improving of the efficiency of production planning.