Design and Fabrication of Special Purpose Tool Fixture for CNC Turrets

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering

© 2016 by SSRG - IJME Journal

Volume 3 Issue 1

Year of Publication : 2016

Authors : Prashanth P V, Sachidananda H K

10.14445/23488360/IJME-V3I1P104

How to Cite?

Prashanth P V, Sachidananda H K, "Design and Fabrication of Special Purpose Tool Fixture for CNC Turrets," SSRG International Journal of Mechanical Engineering, vol. 3,  no. 1, pp. 16-20, 2016. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488360/IJME-V3I1P104

Abstract:

Manufacturing industries in India have brought lot of radical changes in the manufacturing technology, because of which several improvements like CNC machine centers, flexible manufacturing systems, fabrication center, robotics etc. took place. There is a continued use of fixtures in spite of so many advancements in the manufacturing industries and the use of such special fixtures continues either in combination with other systems or autonomously. Various aspects related to the design of tool fixtures have already been well described by various eminent authors, but there has always been the need to apply all these research work in to a manufacturing industrial application. This paper unifies all the aspects and the functional approach to the designed, manufactured tool fixture. This is justified by taking a real component from an industry for our analysis.The component is cylindrical body of Automobile industry. The operations to be performed are outside diameter turning, boring and drilling, inner chamfers. The research work of this paper turned out to prove that a lot of rupees where saved in installation costas now these operations can be performed on CNC centre instead of complicated procedures using the designed tool fixture. The paper presents the integrated approach of design for manufacturing. This research work includes the 3D assembled view of tool fixture using Solid works 2014 and also reports generated from ANSYS. The present contentsof the paper are a deuce of the research work, Process planning and manufacturing. The application is real time and the tool fixture is not only designed but tested with various materials and manufactured.

Keywords:

CNC (Computerized numeric control), Fixture, CNC machining tools, Special purpose tools, Process planning, andspecial purpose tool holder

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