The Middleton Aerospace Corporation designs and manufactures specialty aerospace parts for aircraft manufacturers. Many of the parts require sophisticated fixturing in order to be machined. Middleton operates a variety of CNC machine brands all of which have differently designed tables. They needed a way of sharing the fixturing systems with all of the machines. After reviewing the fixtures and machines, we designed, manufactured, and tested a fixturing system which would eliminate the need for different fixtures for each machine.

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Creator

• Feroli, Steven R.
• Dorchik, Brian John
• McGlone, Ryan Barry
• McLaughlin, Ryan J.

Contributors

• Toomey, John
• Traverdian, Robert

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042407-124930

Advisor

• Rong, Yiming

Year

• 2007

Sponsor

• Middleton Aerospace Corporation

Date created

• 2007-04-24

Location

• Middleton

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Manufacturing Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright