Ford Motor Company Limited

Abid Ghuman

John E Robertson

Bruce Giezentanner

James Wayne Lowe

Marsha J Rosso

Michael W Pitt

Philip Spring

A workpiece presenter for fixturing a workpiece of a vehicle assembly is provided, including a platform, and a tooling plateremovably connected to the platform, the tooling plate including a planar bodyfor supporting fixture toolsholding the workpiece and including a connector mechanism to allow the planar bodyto be removably connected with the platformand the tooling plate having a locater mechanismto locate the planar bodywith respect to the platformin a repeatable manner.

Workpiece presenter for a flexible manufacturing system

A tooling plate to fixture a workpiece for a vehicle subassembly is provided, including a planar bodyfor supporting fixture toolsfor holding a workpiece, a connector mechanism to allow the planar bodyto be removably connected with a workpiece presenter, and a locater mechanismto locate the planar bodywith respect to the workpiece presenterin a repeatable manner.

Tooling plate for a flexible manufacturing system

An automotive vehicle is provided having a body being assembled by a joining process line from a plurality of workpieces joined into a plurality of subassemblies according to the steps of providing templates arranged in a predetermined alignment to form a process line, with each template being generated from a defined set of standardized task stations which are operative to perform a joining process on a workpiece of the subassemblies, fixturing workpieces in a workpiece presenter provided in the task stations, at least one workpiece presenter including a tooling plate removably connected and precision located on a platform of a workpiece presenter, and sequentially joining the workpieces together to form the body.

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Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States of America

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