Weld Fixture Design -- Discover Practical and Easy Clamping and Clamp Arm Ideas -- Beginning Machine Tool Designers and CAD Drafters -- Includes Educational Slide Show -- How much pressure -- How many pounds of force should a clamp have.

Discover the Highlights from the Design and Manufacturing Show South 2013 from the eyes of the Queen of Lean Machine Design at Rentapen Inc. Includes a visit to IMET, 80/20, De-sta-co, Weis, Fanuc, with views of Parker Slides and De-sta-co clamps and grippers. Part holding gripping, automatic assembly dials and slides. A robotic kitty cat, and lighted microscopes for inspection and small assembly work. Exclusive offer for a free gift to those who sign up before March 31, 2013!

Weld Fixture Design and Machine Tool Design and even CAD Drafting requires knowing how long a fastener should be. The Queen of Lean Machine Design offers you guidance with this short video that shows an easy and practical calculation for fastener length.

Three reasons to design into your part holding jig or fixture the ability to adjust. Through video lessons and text, Susan Straley, shows how precision shims in weld fixtures (jigs) can help create products that meet specifications, and testing of the fixture go smoothly.

A quick run down of the best machine tool design blog topics of the year. The Queen of lean machine design shares images, links and pictures from the best blogs so far on Weld Fixture Design 101. Lessons included on clamping, fastening, and detailing.

When designing machine tooling fixtures, designers often use locating pins that fit in a hole in the product part for locating the product in the fixture. Allowing for tolerance variation from the ideal drawing of the product is what is addressed in this lesson from Rentapen's Queen of Lean Machine Design. Sign up to be notified when the next fixture design lesson is posted.

Watch this video to see how to use a simple purchased plate to locate, guide, or stop the production peice in a weld fixture or assembly fixture. It's easy with RAPid Tooling Components and RAPid Shim Packs. Free up time in your tooling department by designing in more purchased components....