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Tooling Types
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Manual Tooling Pneumatic Clamping Part Presence Sensing Auto-Pneumatic Clamping
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The simplest type of tooling is one that uses fixed locators and hand clamps to locate and secure the part. When properly designed, this type of tooling does a great job of holding parts consistently for processing. When higher throughput, error-proofing or improved ergonomics is desired, the more sophisticated approaches below are used.
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Your fixture can be designed replacing the hand clamps with air driven actuators for holding the part in place. This can reduce load/unload time and improve ergonomics in many situations, including:
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Progressive can error-proof your tool by adding part presence sensors. These sensors allow the robot system to confirm that the parts have been loaded properly before processing of the part. |
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Combining the pneumatic clamping and part presence sensing creates the most sophisticated class of tooling. These are often called "smart tools" because they do so much. The tooling is controlled by a PLC to allow part presence confirmation, clamp position sensing, clamp sequencing and even open and close during welding.
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