The Fixture That Couldn’t Hold the Part We built an assembly fixture for a machined housing. The locator pins matched the customer’s drawing. The clamp pushed on the flat face as specified. On the floor, the part sat in the fixture but shifted 0.3 mm when the assembly press cycled. The customer’s quality team flagged …

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