WORKHOLDING RE-IMAGINED with Additive Manufacturing Additive manufacturing produces workholding and fixtures with the precision, toughness, and chemical resistance needed for real-world machining operations. 82% Overall Cost Savings $0 Programming Cost 90% Reduction in Waste Work Safer with Custom Workholding A long-time software customer of ours approached us with an interesting manufacturing challenge. They are a production machining facility that had won a job finish machining a brass nozzle that had been cold formed to near-net shape. The challenge was holding onto the nozzle so the outside diameter and a tapered through hole could be machined. Stock chuck jaws were not going to get the job done; there just wasn’t enough material to safely grip the nozzle in the lathe. So, a custom set of jaws were needed to safely hold the workpiece. Certainly, they could have machined an off-the-shelf set of steal jaws, but we offered them an alternative: a 3D printed set of custom jaws.