Design & Development of Fixture for Lathe Machine – Reviews

Abstract

Machine tool industry has undergone with various changes to meet the requirement of customer and to manufacture the complex parts. The fixtures were developed for various machining process. Fixture study had begun in 1940’s. The basic requirement of the fixture is to locate and hold the component in correct orientation to constrain degree of freedom so that manufacturing processes can be easily carried out. According to the use of fixtures, dedicated and modular fixtures can be generated. To design a fixture, various phases for fixture designing such that planning, design and assembly are to be explored. Over the past decade, much focus has been put on intelligent methods for computer aided fixture design to seek a technical breakthrough in embedding more design knowledge into semiautomatic or automatic systems