Ford Motor Company Limited

Bruce Giezentanner

John E Robertson

Abid Ghuman

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.

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Troy, MI, United States of America

Bruce Giezentanner