In the world of automotive manufacturing, precision and reliability are not just goals, they are requirements. The complex machining and assembly of automotive components demands exacting standards and consistency, which is where jigs and fixtures come into play. These tools are integral to maintaining quality and efficiency across the production line.
ANOK’s CNC machining division employs experienced tooling engineers for its machining fixture design. To fully utilize our precision parts and assemblies business, ANOK must produce hundreds of custom designed machining fixtures every year. A well designed fixture is part of a successful precision parts manufacturing business line. If you are contacting ANOK for precision parts and fixtures, your job will certainly be reviewed by a machining fixture design engineer and make out a customized solution according to your demands.
Consistency: In drilling and machining operations, jigs ensure that holes and features are consistently placed according to design specifications. This minimizes defects and reduces the need for rework, which is crucial for maintaining production efficiency and product quality.
Productivity: Fixtures hold parts securely during machining, allowing for faster processing times. By reducing movement or vibration that could affect part quality, fixtures help in increasing the throughput of the manufacturing process.
Alignment: Fixtures play a vital role in aligning and holding parts in place during welding or assembly. Accurate alignment ensures that components fit together correctly, which is essential for maintaining the structural integrity and performance of the final product.
Repeatability: Using fixtures in assembly processes allows for consistent and repeatable results. This is especially important in mass production, where uniformity is critical for meeting quality standards and customer expectations.
Accuracy: Jigs and fixtures are used in quality control processes to hold parts steady during measurement and inspection. This ensures that parts meet design specifications and are free from defects.
Testing: Some jigs are designed to simulate operational conditions for testing components before they are used in vehicles. This helps in identifying potential issues and ensuring that parts will perform reliably under real-world conditions.
Assembly fixtures are instrumental in the production of automobiles. They are designed to securely hold components during the assembly process, facilitating precise alignment and reducing errors. Assembly fixtures enable your skilled technicians to efficiently assemble various parts, ensuring consistent quality and minimizing assembly time. By utilizing assembly fixtures, we optimize productivity, maintain high-quality standards, and deliver vehicles that exceed customer expectations.
ANOK PRECISION understand that vehicle assembly is a critical part of the automotive manufacturing and requires precision. Be it gap gauges or taper wedges and logo mounting tools, we ensure that our products are highly functional and precise. We undertake a methodical process - site visits, designing upon client inputs, manufacturing, and quality controls. We also implement what we call reverse engineering – manufacturing tools based on samples provided by the client.
Welding fixtures are essential for joining metal components in the automobile manufacturing process. These fixtures hold the parts firmly in place, ensuring accurate alignment during welding operations. By utilizing welding fixtures, we achieve consistent weld quality, minimize distortion, and enhance the overall structural integrity of your vehicles. Moreover, welding fixtures provide a safe work environment by reducing the risk of accidents, ensuring the well-being of our workforce.
ANOK PRECISION manufactures welding fixtures that highly ensure correct positioning and orientation or workpieces. Our sturdy products help you weld accurately and consistently, enabling all your products remain uniform and interchangeable.
Inspection fixtures play a critical role in quality control throughout the manufacturing process. These fixtures are used to verify the accuracy and precision of components and assemblies. With inspection fixtures, your quality control team can perform rapid and accurate measurements, ensuring that every part meets the specified tolerances and standards. By integrating inspection fixtures into your manufacturing process, you can enhance quality assurance, minimize defects, and deliver vehicles of unmatched quality.
ANOK PRECISION utilizes its strength and infrastructure to manufacture precision gauges and inspection fixtures for the automotive industry. These fixtures enable you to check the position of holes and its dimensions, profile tangency of the surface and shrinkage of parts. Our gauges too are widely used to measure different types of objects having various sizes, shapes, and thicknesses, the gap in space, critical diameter of holes etc.
Machining fixtures& jigs are indispensable in precision machining operations such as milling, drilling, and grinding. These fixtures securely hold the workpiece, ensuring stability, precision, and repeatability. By utilizing machining fixtures, we optimize our machining operations, reduce cycle times, and achieve consistent dimensional accuracy in our components. This allows us to meet tight tolerances and deliver parts that are critical to the performance and reliability of our vehicles.
Fixtures are used for holding & locating the parts in precision machining process mainly in VMC, jig boring, HMCs, rotary and surface grinding. According to your production demands, there can be Manual clamp machining fixture, Hydraulic clamp machining fixture, Pneumatic clamp machining fixture ,est. ANOK PRECISION manufactures machining fixtures for various components in automotive and non-automotive industry.
In the assembly of the complete fixture, countless parts that have been standardized on the market are required. At ANOK PRECISION, we guarantee that all standard components are as requested by our customers. In order to ensure the stability of the fixture in production, all cylinders are used industry well-known brands, such as:
KOSMEK https://www.kosmek.co.jp/english/index.html
ROEMHELD https://www.roemheld.de/en
PASCAL https://www.pascaleng.co.jp/us/
Keeping tooling design in-house is an enormous benefit to our precision parts and assemblies customers. Being vertically integrated means having an internal supply chain of metal machining components to feed our contract manufacturing customers. From design to modular fixtures, ANOK’s team is ready to support you by our capability and expertise:
Cost control and efficiency: We have complete advanced machining equipment, such as 4axisCNC, 5axisCNC, Grinding, WEDM, which can fully meet the machining parts production of all fixtures in manufacturing, and can effectively adjust the processing schedule to meet the time needs
Accuracy guarantee: According to assembly requirements and many years of processing experience, leave enough assembly gap between parts and parts
Material optimization: Analyze the actual needs of customers and years of industry experience, select the best cost-effective materials and surface treatment for the components
Quality control: Strict quality control process and testing means to ensure that each fixture meets customer high standards
ANOK PRECISION is constantly improving our machining department as we continue to expand and reinvest into our organization. For the most up to date information on our capabilities, please visit our Service Page.
ANOK PRECISION: Expertise in Jigs, Fixtures, and Beyond
At ANOK PRECISION MANUFACTURING (SHENZHEN) Co.,Ltd, we understand the critical role that jigs and fixtures play in automotive manufacturing. Our expertise extends beyond just the design and implementation of these tools. We provide a comprehensive suite of services that includes:
· Advanced Tooling Solutions: We offer custom-designed jigs and fixtures tailored to meet the specific needs of your manufacturing processes, ensuring precision and efficiency.
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· Prototyping and Simulation: Our state-of-the-art CAD and simulation capabilities allow for thorough testing and refinement of jigs and fixtures before full-scale production.
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· Maintenance and Support: We provide ongoing support and maintenance services to ensure that your jigs and fixtures remain in top condition, helping to prevent downtime and maintain high-quality production standards.
For more information about how ANOK PRECISION MANUFACTURING (SHENZHEN) Co.,Ltd can support your automotive manufacturing needs, including our jigs and fixtures solutions and other services, please visit our website at www.anokcnc.com .
Reference:
1,Book 《JIGS AND FIXTURES 》– HIRAM E. GRANT