Every dovetail milled, every soft jaw cut, every setup dialled in twice — that is spindle time spent on holding the part instead of making it. We supply the German-engineered clamping that takes that work off the machine, plus the fixturing, clamps and locating hardware that keep a setup repeatable.
German-engineered workholding from HWR — two ways to stop losing time and envelope to the fixture. SOLIDStamp moves clamping prep off the machine entirely; INOFlex VL clamps round, cubic and irregular parts concentric in one chuck.
A stamping station presses a defined tooth contour into the blank under high pressure. The part then clamps by form fit rather than friction — so the force-intensive work happens outside the machine, in non-productive time, and the vise can stay slim and accessible.
A conventional chuck drives every jaw around a common centre, so anything that isn’t round is over-determined — it clamps on two points and racks. The INOFlex drive moves on two parallel axes with the opposed slides linked, so all four jaws compensate. Round, square, rectangular and genuinely irregular parts all clamp concentric to the rotary axis, and thin-wall parts clamp without being squeezed out of shape.
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Form-fit workholding pays off hardest on a 5-axis trunnion, where every bit of collision contour costs you reach. Our machinery side runs ten GEN MILL vertical machining centres — 3-axis, 5-axis trunnion and double-column bridge, 12″ to 63″ X travel.
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