Six Signs Your Workholding Is Letting You Down

It is essential to consider all variables that affect production when evaluating the performance of your machining operations. One factor that is often overlooked is workholding performance. It can be easy to blame poor cutting tools or old machine tools when faced with challenges such as:

• Excessive cutting tool wear
• Long cycle and/or set-up times
• Poor part quality and low productivity

But have you considered that it’s really your workholding’s performance that may be letting you down?

Key Indicators of Workholding Performance Issues

Selecting the correct workholding product and supplier will profoundly affect your productivity, quality, flexibility and even customer service. Indicators that point to your workholding’s performance as the culprit for your machining challenges include:

• Persistent cutting tool chatter, even with new cutting tools
• Inconsistent part dimensions from one piece to the next
• Poor surface finishes
• Extended cycle times or parts being ejected during machining
• Rapid and excessive cutting tool wear
• Time-consuming and complex setup or changeover

If you are experiencing any of these workholding performance issues, Mate has a solution.

An Answer to Your Machining Challenges

Mate workholding products were designed to address the challenges and complaints we encountered throughout our 60+ years of machining experience. We started with the highest quality materials and built a truly innovative product that addresses jaw lift, part movement and vibration, long set-up times and poor repeatability. Mate DynoGrip? top tools and DynoLock? zero-point bases deliver best-in-class accuracy, repeatability, and holding force.

At Mate, we make doing business with us as easy as possible. Our application specialists, with decades of machining experience, are only a phone call away. The Mate workholding solution is an investment in your future and the overall performance of your machining operations. Investing in Mate’s modular, quick-change, zero-point workholding system will simplify your operations by delivering innovative products backed by our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee.