PAR can design and develop configurable, robotic fixtures to address your full range of parts while ensuring the fixture is appropriate for your manufacturing process. Robotic fixtures are sometimes referred to as flexible fixtures because they are designed to be adjustable and adaptable to different tooling needs. However, the positioning and holding of parts remains rigid, so PAR uses the language of configurable and robotic to avoid confusion.

Configurable fixtures allow an entire family of parts to be managed with one fixture that remains within the machine footprint. They reduce or eliminate the need for dedicated tooling and the associated design, production, maintenance, storage, and handling costs.

PAR has developed various adaptive manufacturing strategies that utilize various patented techniques to enable the production of critical components and assemblies with exacting tolerances despite uncertainties of location, size, contour, and other factors. From mapping as-built conditions and morphing tool paths to match, utilizing integrated process heads, to robotic and configurable fixtures. When the magnitude of the uncertainty is larger than the tolerances required, PAR patented techniques and optimized system designs provide the solution for automating the manufacturing process.