How to distinguish between tooling/fixture/fixture

In modern chemical plants, many aspects of assembly and testing are very complicated. Even very skilled assembly workers are difficult to quickly, accurately and safely assemble the parts they want to install in place. In this case, it is necessary to have a fixture (tooling) to assist in positioning, adjust the installation direction or control force, which is also the most important application of tooling in the production process. But what is the difference between tooling, fixture and fixture? The following simple definition can help distinguish.

Tooling, I .e. process equipment, refers to the general term of various tools used in the manufacturing process, including tools/fixtures/molds/measuring tools/gauges/auxiliary tools/fitter tools/station appliances, etc. Tooling is the abbreviation of general. Tooling can be divided into special tooling/general tooling/standard tooling (similar to standard parts).

Fixtures and utensils for manufacturing can be called fixtures, sometimes with tooling agreement, sometimes also refers to fixtures, the general Taiwan/Korean/Japanese and other electronic enterprises often use the word (corresponding to the English fixture).

Fixture is also called fixture. Broadly speaking, in any process of the process, the device used to quickly, easily and safely install the workpiece can be called a fixture. For example, welding fixtures, inspection fixtures, assembly fixtures, machine tool fixtures, etc. Which machine tool fixture is the most common, often referred to as the fixture, fixture belongs to the tooling. Machine tool fixture is used to quickly fasten the workpiece during processing, so that the machine tool, tool, workpiece to maintain the correct relative position of the process device. Machine tool fixture is an indispensable part of machining. Driven by the development of machine tool technology to high speed, high efficiency, precision, composite, intelligent and environmental protection, fixture technology is also developing in the direction of high precision, high efficiency, module, combination, general and economic.