Aspects of reconfigurable and flexible fixtures

Production Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-339

  Jonsson, Marie ^a   Ossbahr, Gilbert ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assembly; Fixtures; Jigs; Reconfigurable; Tooling

Indexed keywords

COST DRIVERS; DESIRED POSITION; FIXTURING; FLEXIBLE DEVICE; FLEXIBLE FIXTURE; KEY FEATURE; PARALLEL KINEMATICS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE TOOLING; WORK PIECES;

JIGS;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 77955427567     PISSN: 09446524     EISSN: 18637353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11740-010-0256-z     Document Type: Article

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