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Jergen's 5-Axis ER Collet Fixtures Provide Simple Clamping of Cylindrical Parts in a CNC MIll

4/12/2022

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Looking for a simple and low profile solution for clamping cylindrical workpieces and round bars?  Do you ever need to hold a round shank workpiece and machine it in a CNC Mill? 
The Jergen's 5-Axis ER Collet Fixtures could be the best economical solution to this workholding problem .

​These hardened alloyed steel fixtures have a direct interface with other Jergens Fixture-Pro® products and have multiple mounting styles available.
Jergens 5-Axis ER Collet Fixtures
The ER Collet Fixtures provide a simple and low profile solution for clamping cylindrical workpieces using the same technology you are already familiar with in your rotary toolholders.
  • Single piece, hardened alloy steel body 
  • ​Accepts standard ER40 collets
  • Includes spanner style collet nut
  • Includes (4) pull studs installed
  • Left hand thread prevents back off when tightening collet nut
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Next Generation Tooling Now Offers Technical Training!

6/14/2017

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We are very excited to announce that we are now able to offer on-site technical training to YOUR machinists at YOUR location!  This is offered at no charge  to customers who use any of the manufacturer's whom we represent in California and Nevada.  

However, just because you don't purchase things from us, don't feel left out! We also offer on-site topic specter training on any of the following topics for $150/hour.  

Each presentation lasts about 2 hours.  The presentations last approximately 45-60 minutes with the remaining time for Q&A and discussion about unique applications in your facility.
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Training Classes Available:
Machining 101
  • Basic Boring
  • Basic Chamfering
  • Basic Drill Training
  • Basic End Mill
  • Basic Indexable
  • Basic Tap Training
  • Basic Tool Holders
  • Basic Work Holding / Fixturing​

Advanced Part Manufacturing:
  • Programming Tool Path – Climb versus Conventional
  • Material Machinability – Cubic Inches of Stock Removal
  • Part Set Up / Work Holding / Fixture 
  • Tool Holder Selection, Collet, Solid, Hydraulic, Shrink Fit
  • Cutting Tool Selection – Substrate, Geometry, Coating, Speed and Feeds 
  • Estimating Part Cycle Time
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Use Guide Pins to Assist in Loading of Fixtures to Protect Your Investment

12/14/2016

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john zaya Big Kaiser unilock workholding
Guest Blog
​John Zaya
Product Manager
#Workholding
john.zaya@us.bigkaiser.com
Tel; 224.770.2930

The concept of using guide pins to load large fixtures has been around for a long time, and it even applies when incorporating Unilock zero-point clamping systems in your fixturing.

The main Unilock clamping knob is very robust, i.e.: very hard, and as such it can cause damage to a Unilock chuck if a fixture is very heavy or large.

Guide pins are set up on the base, and their corresponding holes or notches located on the edge of the fixture pre-position the fixture so, that as it is being lowered, the knobs do not impact the critical location faces of the clamping chuck.

​This also has the added benefit of keeping operators in a safe location not having to use their hands & fingers to fine-adjust a slightly out-of-place fixture being lowered.

Unilock Guide pins installed on a sub-plate
1. Guide pins installed on a sub-plate

Unilock Corresponding guide holes notches on fixture plate
2. Corresponding guide holes notches on fixture plate

Fixture plate being lowered on to sub-plate
3. Fixture plate being lowered on to sub-plate
Guide pins and guide notches aid to perfectly align the fixture and sub-plate
4. Guide pins and guide notches aid to perfectly align the fixture and sub-plate
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How Its Made 5th Axis Workholding Vises

8/24/2016

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In case you missed the episode of 5th Axis vises on How Its Made, you can re-watch it right here.

This may be useful in explaining what you do in your job.... even though there's a lot of talk about "carving", "shaping" and "Sculpting"

Howitsmade16 from Mathew Richard on Vimeo.

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Workholding: Maximizing your CNC time "In-The-Cut"

3/18/2015

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by Bernard Martin
Types of Workholding  There are many ways to skin a cat.  Dedicated fixtures have more or less fallen by the wayside just like dedicated transfer lines.  This trend will probably continue for two primary reasons:
  1. Product Life cycles are continually decreasing. You make something for your customer, their competitor knocks it off, they modify the design and generally just enough to make you trash your entire dedicated fixture.
  2. Just-In-Time demands will continue to grow.  The JIT theories of the 1980’s have filtered down to the small job shop.  Where you may have had a customer that needed 200,000 parts a year and you could make inventory to stock, now, to remain competitive, you can’t pay that kind of inventory overhead.  This will continue.  Lot sizes AND lead time will continue to decrease.  Those shops that can continue to meet these industry demands will grow and prosper.
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ModLoc T- Column with Docking Station
Modular fixturing is the buzzword.  “Modular” takes on numerous forms from a variety of manufacturers.  It can be as simple as components and clamps that are assembled into a “dedicated” fixture for a job but then can be disassembled and the components used for another job. 

​The key to modular tooling is that you start with a good “foundation”.  The foundation for most modular systems is a tombstone or subplate.    Modular fixturing allow you to make “dedicated” fixtures that can be disassembled and reused for other “dedicated” fixtures. 

​Modular fixturing is a very good solution for longer part runs or fixturing very hard to hold part shapes.
SPEED is the KEY! Modular fixturing is a great idea, but as your customers begin to demand faster turnaround and smaller lot sizes just the fact that you can re-use your tooling components doesn’t always help.  What matters, remember, is spindle up-time. 

​Taking apart your components and setting up others takes TIME.  So there has been a demand for new innovations from Workholding manufacturers in both modular AND Quick Change fixturing.  Have you ever found yourself thinking:  “I need fast set-ups, good repeatability, and quick changeover… and I want the tooling to be modular to a point where I don’t have to completely disassemble everything.” 

Foundation systems.  

Reducing set up times in workholding start with the foundation. You want to have the ability to move your fixturing from Vertical to Horizontal CNC's as lot sizes of parts increase or back to the Vertical CNC as lots sizes reduce.

Foundation level systems are systems that you can build dedicated or modular fixtures on and quickly remove them for another set-up.  
They will also allow you to set up you fixtures off-line.  That is, they will allow you to set the fixtures up OUT of the machining center.  They key benefit to this is that you can still continue to make chips on one job while setting up another outside of the machine
Another major benefit to these types of systems is that they will enable you to make quick changeovers.  If your total “in-the-cut” machining time is 5 minutes but it takes you 10 minutes to change out the new parts and put in more raw material these system can save you a great deal of time.

There are two issues to look at when considering a certain type of fixture:
  1. How long will it take to change the set-up to a new job?
  2. How long will it take to change parts during a job?
Obviously the best answer is: “As fast as possible!” 

The mPower SpeedLock and ModLoc fixturing system show in the video above is one of the foundation systems that you may want to consider as part of a shop wide set up and changeover reduction process.  

​Consider all of the types and sizes of the parts in your shop and then determine which baseplate size to start with that can provide you with the most versatility.  

The process of standardizing your workholding will take some time, but once complete you can move jobs around with the same simplicity as when your kids are playing with their lego's.
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    Technical Support Blog

    At Next Generation Tool we often run into many of the same technical questions from different customers. This section should answer many of your most common questions.

    We set up this special blog for the most commonly asked questions and machinist data tables for your easy reference.

    If you've got a question that's not answered here, then just send us a quick note via email or reach one of us on our CONTACTS page here on the website
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    Our technical section is written by several different people. Sometimes, it's from our team here at Next Generation Tooling & at other times it's by one of the innovative manufacturer's we represent in California and Nevada.

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