Low-Cost Jigs, Fixtures and Gages for Limited Production

Title: Low-Cost Jigs, Fixtures and Gages for Limited Production
Author: William Boyes
ISBN: 0872632075 / 9780872632073
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 320
Publisher: SME
Year: 1985
Availability: 45-60 days

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Covering over 100 specific topics, this book offers many low-cost approaches to short-run tooling: How to improve product interchangeability and accuracy, lower your labor costs, and shorten manufacturing times. 14 detailed chapters cover: universal tooling concepts, combining parts and operations, developing multipart tools, coordinate measuring machines, numerical control, computerized tooling systems.

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Preface
About The Editor

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Tooling for Limited Production
Chapter 3 : Tooling for Numerical Control
Chapter 4 : Elements of Low-cost Jigs and Fixtures
Chapter 5 : Methods of Low-cost Design
Chapter 6 : Multipurpose Jigs and Fixtures
Chapter 7 : Modular Tooling Systems
Chapter 8 : Formed-section Tool Construction
Chapter 9 : Magnesium Tool and Wood Tool Construction
Chapter 10 : Plastic Tool Construction
Chapter 11 : Low-melt Alloys
Chapter 12 : Gaging for Limited Production
Chapter 13 : Coordinate Measuring Machines
Chapter 14 : Computer-aided Design

Appendix : Machining without Special Jigs and Fixtures
Index