Refurbishing And Repurpose
Purchasing a new fixture is not always necessary. Redesigning, modifying, and refurbishing are cost-effective way to improve, and expand tooling function and tooling life. Many different types of workholding can be refurbished and/or repurposing including arbors and mandrels, collets, chucks, and whole machining center fixtures.
Arbors and Mandrels
Arbors and mandrels can lose clamp force overtime and develop runout, which negatively affects part quality and tool life. This can also increase setup time. Concentric refurbishes arbors and mandrels returning them - in many cases, to like-new condition.
Hydraulic Arbors
Concentric replaces seals, fluid, and recharges hydraulic arbors. Out-of-tolerance hydraulic arbors can be unassembled, refurbished with replacement parts and requalified.
Chucks and Machining Center Fixture
Concentric can recreate missing print dimensions or re-design new components, to produce replacement parts save your company valuable time and money.
Collets
Collets can become brittle with wear and lose their elasticity. Concentric can reseal collets and resurface collets
Solid Arbors
Can be chromed and reground, improving performance quality.
Call today for a refurbishing quote.
Fixture Multitasking
We regularly help our customers by repurposing fixtures to add more functionality to existing fixture to enhance manufacturing operations. We can:
- Add replacement changeover components to expand the number of parts you can run on your fixture
- Create fewer single-use fixtures, resulting in more floorspace and reduced cost
- Increase production speeds and decrease set up time.
Refurbishing Services
When to consider retooling, redesigning, modifying, or repurposing your workholding:
- A production cell is involved in a lean or kaizen program
- Existing machines need to run a new part or family of parts
- You need to improve run time
- You want to reduce setup time
- Current tooling has poor ergonomics
- A product design change prompt new tolerancing requirements
- You need to re-fixture a part to run on it a different machine
- More floor space is needed
When to consider refurbishing your workholding. When you:
- Find worn fixturing
- Notice reduced processing speeds
- Measure increased runout
- Identify compromised quality
- Want to extend the life of your workholding
- Want to stretch your workholding budget
