Custom Tooling, Jigs & Fixtures

Norck Robotics – Expertise in Custom Tooling, Jigs & Fixtures Manufacturing

Norck Robotics is the trusted leader in the design and manufacturer of custom tooling, jigs and fixtures for high tolerance precision industrial applications. Our goal is to provide custom machine tooling and custom fixturing solutions which will elevate productivity, positional accuracy, and repeatability across all manufacturing sectors. Engaging in custom jigs and fixtures, we have the experience to provide reliable support for any level of assembly, machining, and automation. Every solution is designed around the specific needs provided by the clients to ensure optimal performance and longevity.

Custom tooling engineers create precision-fitted custom tooling and fixturing solutions for specific manufacturing needs

Custom machine tooling machines with rigorous standards of quality and durability

Custom designed jigs and fixtures to ensure all production is repeatable and accurate

Complete tooling and fixturing solutions for robotics, aerospace, and industrial automation

Fixtures that help increase workflow efficiencies and reduce setup time with efficient fixturing systems

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UNMATCHED ROBOTICS ENGINEERING SUPPORT

Integrated System Design

Norck Robotics specializes in providing unique robotic automation and engineering solutions designed to meet the specific operational needs of each client. Our expertise covers a wide range of industries and applications.

Engineering Expertise, Every Step of Automation

Norck Robotics delivers turnkey robotic automation and engineering solutions tailored to your specific needs across various industries.

Your Solution, Your Scale

Whether you need a single robotic cell prototype or full-scale factory automation, Norck Robotics engineers are ready to collaborate with you to bring your concept to life.

Optimize Your System for Automation

Norck Robotics engineers analyze your existing processes to provide feedback that enhances efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and productivity for robotic integration.

Why is custom tooling (jigs, fixtures) necessary for PCB manufacturing?

The custom tooling consisting of jigs and fixtures constitutes an almost indispensable ingredient in PCB manufacturing, thus instrumental in attaining precision, efficiency, and quality. Let us take a look at why they are an essential factor:

Efficiency

These custom-made tools enable speeding up operations while reducing human errors, thus increasing the throughput and effectively reducing any rework that translates into lost production time.

Accuracy

Custom jigs and fixtures hold PCBs during the manufacturing processes to maintain absolute consistency and accuracy in the positioning of components and connections.

Material Waste

With custom tooling, the placement of components is always made to precision with little room for incorrect alignment and subsequent material loss.

Flexibility for Complex Designs

Custom tooling can be produced for a special PCB design or special production requirements that, in turn, allow for the handling of intricate or complicated board layouts.

Cost-Effectiveness

Despite the initial higher cost for custom tooling, the cost saved over time significantly outweighs it due to increased efficiency, fewer errors, and less wastage.

Production Consistency

Custom jigs and fixtures allow for a uniform manufacturing process so that each PCB meets required standards without any form of variation.

Summing up, Custom Tooling like Jigs & Fixtures is always required for ensuring precision, enhancing productivity, and minimizing errors during PCB manufacturing, ensuring higher-quality products and more convincing operations.

How do fixtures ensure PCBs are held securely and repeatably?

The custom tooling of jigs and fixtures is an almost indispensable ingredient within PCB manufacturing; thus, it is instrumental to precision, efficiency, and quality. Let us take a look at the following reasons behind it being an essential factor:

Accuracy

Custom jigs and fixtures keep boards during manufacturing to ensure that absolute consistency and accuracy are upheld with respect to the positioning of components and connections.

Efficiency

These custom tools speed up operations while keeping human errors to a minimum. This effectively increases throughput and reduces reworking time into lost production time.

Material Waste

Using this type of custom tooling, however, the placement of components is to precision, with a small fraction of possibility, if any, for improper alignment and eventual material loss.

Even though initially custom tooling is rather expensive, the cost saved over a period greatly outweighs this period of expense due to operational efficiency, fewer errors, and waste.

Cost-Effectiveness

Custom jigs and fixtures ensure a uniform process of manufacturing so that each PCB may finally adhere to the required standard without any accommodation from it.

Consistency of Production

Custom tooling can be fabricated for a particular PCB design or peculiar production requirement that thereby allows the handling of sophisticated or complicated board layouts.

Flexibility for Complex Designs

WHY NORCK ROBOTICS?

Access Broad Integration and Project Capacity

In addition to its own expert engineering team, Norck Robotics provides access to a network of hundreds of top-tier system integrators, robot manufacturers, and component suppliers across the United States, Germany, and Europe.

Create Resilience in Your Supply Chain

Working with Norck Robotics reduces dependency on manual labor, increases production consistency, and secures your operations against unforeseen disruptions, quality issues, and fluctuations. This enhances your company's supply chain resilience.

Technology-Driven Solutions

Norck Robotics advances digital automation by developing custom-designed robot grippers, advanced vision systems, and innovative simulation software. With an AI-driven, data-centric approach, it enables smarter system design, optimal performance, and predictive maintenance solutions.

Environment-Focused Approach

Norck Robotics encourages its partners to be carbon-neutral by reducing energy consumption and material waste through the efficiency of robotic automation, and prioritizes environmentally conscious suppliers.

What manufacturing methods (CNC, 3D printing) are used to create this tooling?

Many manufacturing processes are used to execute custom tooling, such as jigs and fixtures. CNC machining and 3D printing are among the most popular and each lends its unique advantage to a different application.

CNC Machining

Precision

CNC machining allows for the processing of tooling with high tolerances, essential in Diesel custom tooling.

Material

CNC working could embrace many types of materials, including metals and plastics, providing greater versatility to tooling production.

Complex Geometry

It can impart on the shapes and structures for jigs and fixtures that cannot be processed by traditional methodologies.

Efficiency

CNC machining is extremely time-efficient when producing in large volumes, therefore reducing manufacturing costs.

3-D Printing

Rapid Prototyping

3D printing comes in handy to quick-prototyping approaches and uses rapid iterations of design in custom tooling for testing and enhancing jigs and fixtures.

Cost-Effective

A preferable way is engaging low-volume production or highly customized design 3-D-printing when compared with the traditional route.

Material Innovation

It can utilize specialty materials such as high-temperature resins that impart certain properties, thus paving the way for special applications.

In both these practices, working custom tooling is produced that is reliable and good-quality for jigs and fixtures in a large number of industrial fields. Which method to choose is basically dependent upon the complexity, volume, and material requirements of the project that is being worked upon.

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