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Fixturing and Tooling

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Repeatability Starts Here

We design and build custom fixtures and tooling. The right fixturing and tooling are essential to producing high quality cut parts. Our team at Shape Process Automation has more than 100 years of combined experience designing tools and building over 3000 fixtures for production that are user-friendly, low maintenance, and ergonomically correct. We take your processes, materials, and the force of the cut into consideration when creating the right fixturing for your cutting solution.

Our exclusive design process begins with a Robot Reach Study. Using the data we collect, we ensure your fixture and robots are in the best position to optimize cutting efficiency, and your operators’ interactions are ergonomically correct to reduce fatigue.

 

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Continuous improvement
Custom fabrication
Distinct technical advantage
Engineers intimately understand cutting process
Incorporated customer feedback
Longest-lasting, easiest to maintain tools

Easy Maintenance,
Increased Uptime.

Fold down walls allow for quick and easy access for maintenance, so you can get your equipment back into production, fast. For waterjets, the baffles are easily removable, significantly reducing downtime.
  • Composite structures
  • Headliners
  • Wheeliners
  • Blow-molded products
  • Appliance liners
  • And more…

Fixtures, Gauges, End Effectors, and Assembly Tools

We offer fixtures, gauges, and secondary assembly tools, all fabricated to meet your needs. Combined with offline programming, the Shape Process Automation team is a comprehensive partner for your part processing set up needs.

OEM Designed Fixturing and Tooling

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Secure Your Parts for High Production

Our high-volume JetVACs and RouterVACs produce up to 4000 CFM of vacuum pressure. The suction holds your part in a repeatable state while removing debris from the tool and depositing it in the hopper.
JetVac® Waste Collection System:

Improve repeatability and increase visibility and efficiency of waterjet cutting through vacuum pressure. JetVac securely holds parts down to fixturing, while simultaneously transferring excess water droplets, small dropouts, and debris into the waste hopper.

 

  • 4,000 CFM, 25 HP radial blade exhauster
  • Fan sound attenuator
  • Cyclone separator, including:
    – 10” Diameter clean-out
    – Rotary air-loc
  • Solid guarding offers protection from air-loc
  • Vacuum On/Off control
  • Frame with forklift access
  • 1 cubic yard self-dumping hopper
    – 1” nipple for drainage
    – Safety interlock switch
RouterVac™ Waste Collection System:

Overcome sideload forces inherent to robotic router bit cutting and improve repeatability through vacuum pressure. RouterVac securely holds parts down to fixturing, separates non-explosive dust and small cutouts from the airstream, and deposits chips and solids into the waste hopper.

 

  • 4,000 CFM, 25 HP radial blade exhauster
  • Fan sound attenuator
  • Cyclone separator, including
    – 10” Diameter clean-out
    – Rotary air-loc
  • Solid guarding offers protection from air-loc
  • Vacuum On/Off control
  • Frame with forklift access
    – 1 cubic yard self-dumping hopper
    – Safety inter-lock switch