The Kurt PinLock™ Is Ideal For Building A Shop-Wide Modular Workholding System WORKHOLDING TODAY New and existing machining centers get a big boost in productivity when they are equipped with Kurt’s new PinLock™ locating and clamping syst

Improve cycle and SETUP timeS while reducing scrap. Gene Kline (r) director of G & Z operations and David Zaval (l) Kurt manufacturer’s representative, holding finished machined aerospace housing that is located and clamped in the company’s tombstone setup using the Kurt PinLock system. Setup time is reduced from 7 hours to under an hour using the new system. G & Z Industries Reduces Machining Center Cycle Time By Half, Setup Time From 7 Hours To Under An Hour Using Kurt’s New PinLock™ Locating And Clamping System New and existing machining centers get a big boost in productivity when they are...

Custom machined aluminum mounting plates with three clamping stations per plate are clamped to standard 10" x 10" x 24" Kurt ToolBlox ductile iron tombstones using the PinLock system. This enables machining of 12 parts per pallet setup. This reduces cycle time by half over the previous method on the company's vertical machining centers. Parts are in the cut on one pallet while parts are loaded on the machine's second pallet. aerospace, electronics, medical and other leading industries, the company has steadily implemented new processes not always available from other machining companies. One...

Quality Improvement And Scrap Reduction A Big Plus While the overall setup time with the PinLock system after the initial setup was just 12 percent of the first setup process, quality control requirements were also much less. First part quality with each initial setup in the PinLock system was consistently within tolerance requirements so no re-work, adjustments of the workholding or extra inspections were needed. “We were really impressed with the first part precision coming out of the PinLock setup,” reported Mr. Kline. “All of the parts are machined from 6061 aluminum in various size configurations...