Our process has been developed over the forty years of our existence. It continually incorporates new materials, software and machining advances. With the help of an ERP system, other tools and various quality systems, we endeavor to track and control the products being shipped to our valued customers.
Clark Fixtures brings to the table over 40 years of experience. Our project engineers work with various customers in numerous industries. Their understanding of tolerancing and GD&T come from this experience. As new customers are on-boarded, they are assigned a PE that best fits their industry and products. This technical contact becomes your primary interface with quotes and orders.
Clark Fixtures almost from its inception, utilized CAD/CAM as a way to design appropriate tooling around a customer’s product. With guidance from the PE, the appropriate material, design and features are brought together to fulfill the needs of any given project. As each design is completed, it is reviewed and signed off and then put in a format that can be emailed or uploaded to a secure site. Once these designs are approved by the customer, they are integrated back into our production process.
With the utilization of CAD/CAM an NC file is sent to the shop server, a full scale plot of the material is sent to the material prep department and drawings for any metal details that need to be machined are sent to the machining department.
The vast majority of our fixtures are machined on CNC machines as one complete part on its base, thereby removing the added tolerance stack-up that is necessary when adding separate blocks or saddles. Quality verifications are taken at every step.
Clark Fixture’s CMM lab is certified to ISO-IEC17025:2017.
Each fixture is rigorously inspected to ensure that the product you are receiving is machined to the specifications that were inputted into its design and matches the print coordinates.
Upon completion a final audit inspection is preformed to confirm that the fixture is complete and functional.
