Tie each fixture to its component revision, its proving readings and the buyer who signed it off.

A fixture exists to hold one component against its datums, so it goes stale the moment that component changes. Revision B of the bracket arrives, yet the fixture proved on revision A still sits in the customer’s cell, quietly clamping parts to the old print. No one rechecks the locators.

Management software for fixture makers keeps the part, the design and the proving readings on a single chain. Send us one recent job, and we trace that chain for it, from the buyer’s print through to the first accepted part.

A customer sends a component drawing or a casting sample and asks for a fixture to hold it for milling, drilling, welding or inspection. The designer settles the locating faces and clamp positions, then releases drawings with a list of tooling plates, diamond pins, hardened bushes, toggle clamps and catalogue parts.

Base plates are sawn and milled. Locators are ground, hardened and given a blackening finish. Renewable liner bushes are pressed in, dowels are fitted, and the fixture is blued against a master block before any part touches it. A trial part is clamped, measured on a surface table or a coordinate measuring machine, and the readings go to the buyer for approval. Change is the norm here. When the component is revised, the fixture comes back for modification, and delivery includes a proving report and the drawing set.