CNC Machined Fixtures and EOAT for Manufacturing and Assembly
As prototype and low-volume CNC machining specialists, Summit CNC often provides fixturing and tooling solutions for manufacturing and assembly.
If other shops have no-quoted your one-off and low-volume requests for CNC machined fixtures and tooling, you can stop your search right here with our Denver machine shop.
Custom CNC Machined Fixturing and Tooling Solutions
Our team regularly machines fixtures and tooling for both automated and manual processes, which we’ll break down into two subsets:
Fixtures and tooling for automated manufacturing and assembly processes
Fixtures for manual assembly
Examples of Fixtures and Tooling Our Denver Machine Shop Produces
There are numerous types of machined fixtures and tooling that can simplify and streamline manufacturing and assembly processes. We’re happy to discuss solutions for your unique challenges!
Most commonly, we fulfill customer requests for the following:
End of arm tooling (EOAT). We machine custom end of arm tooling that enables industrial robots to perform specific functions.
Fixtures. Our CNC machined fixtures secure a component to the work table, allowing human workers to seamlessly assemble the mating component.
Jigs. Both robots and people use our custom machined jigs to move components in and out of fixtures or other components.
Low-Volume CNC Machined Fixtures and Tooling for High-Volume Production Orders
When producing thousands of a single product, it’s common only to need a relatively small number of custom fixtures or tooling. For example, your high-volume production line may only need five fixtures and two jigs per fixture.
While a production machine shop or sheet metal fabrication shop will make the thousands of components needed for your product, that same shop likely isn’t set up to customize a handful of CNC machined tooling or fixture units.
And while your assembly line may benefit tremendously from robotics assistance, a production machine shop can’t efficiently stall its high-volume jobs to customize a single EOAT solution.
That’s where Summit CNC comes in.
Our Approach to CNC Machining Precision Fixtures and Tooling
When you come to our prototype and low volume machine shop in Colorado for custom fixtures and tooling, you can count on consistently exceptional quality with an emphasis on these operational promises:
Precision CNC Machining
When it comes to EOAT, fixtures, and jigs, precision is non-negotiable.
As you know, parts with critical tolerances require equally precise fixtures and tools. So what’s the answer when your production shop won’t perform low-volume CNC machining, yet many low-volume shops aren’t equipped to consistently achieve tight tolerances down to +/- 0.0002”?
We’re the answer.
Our machine shop has the advanced CNC equipment and CMM inspection capabilities necessary to ensure accuracy and precision for each CNC part. When you obtain custom EOAT, fixtures, and tooling from us, you know the EOAT won’t damage your parts due to imprecision, and the fixtures and jigs will enable perfectly mated parts.
In-House Hardware Integration
From dowel pins to Heli-Coil inserts to machine keys, our Denver machine shop integrates any necessary hardware into custom machined fixtures.
You’ll never receive an incomplete fixture from our shop because we want our work to simplify and streamline your work—not make it more tedious.
Reliable Finishing Services
Finishing is a crucial step for many CNC machined fixturing and tooling solutions.
For example, machined aluminum fixtures endure extensive, repetitive use and, therefore, require a high degree of durability. To extend the life of an aluminum fixture, many customers request anodizing services. We coordinate and manage anodizing and all other finishing services with our trusted finishing partner shops that specialize in low volume metal finishing for CNC machined parts.
You never need to worry about your machined parts being out of tolerance due to surface build-up from finishing operations like anodizing. During our precision machining processes, we account for the effects finishing operations have on your part’s tolerances, and we carefully inspect every CNC part for accuracy before sending it on to you, our customer.
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