Aspects of Reconfigurable Fixtures and Barriers in Their Implementation

Fixture is use to hold a workpiece in the desire position and orientation during manufacturing, assembly, welding or any other machining process. Conventional fixtures need to be redesigned and remanufactured for every new product or process. So there is need of special work holding device like reconfigurable fixture which can be used to hold a variety of workpieces or to hold the workpiece in different orientation. But, implementation of such fixtures is not an easy task as a number of barriers affect their implementation. The paper presents a brief introduction to the reconfigurable fixtures and barriers in the implementation of such fixtures.