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September 14th, 2023 by Blue Photon

Browse our list of events to meet Blue Photon and see live demonstrations of products.
Lots of opportunities to get to know Blue Photon and exchange ideas with the application experts.

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EMO Hannover Trade Fair
The World of Metalworking
Hannover, Germany
September 18-23, 2023.
Hall 5 | Stand B84
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SPIE. Optifab
Optical Manufacturing
Rochester Riverside Convention Center – Rochester, NY
October 16-19, 2023.
Booth #908
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WITS
Wichita Industrial Trade Show
Century II Expo Hall – Wichita, KS
October 17-19, 2023.
Booth #414
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Southtec
Regional Manufacturing Technology Series
Greenville Convention Center – Greenville, SC
October 24-26, 2023.
Booth #1934
Visit us at Southtec

Westec
Regional Manufacturing Technology Series
Long Beach Convention Center – Long Beach, CA
November 7-9, 2023.
Exhibit Hall B – Booth #1722
To attend, register today!

The 2023 product catalog is ready for viewing and download.

August 14th, 2023 by Blue Photon

Blue Photon Technology & Workholding Systems LLC, the exclusive manufacture of patented adhesive workholding systems in the U.S. announces the release of their new catalog.

The catalog features a multitude of workholding gripper and insert components designed to improve holding strength while using the BlueGrip™ workholding adhesives. The catalog provides information about the latest developments in new products to the Blue Photon workholding system.

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Fixturing Castings Made Simple Through Adhesive Workholding

March 28th, 2023 by Blue Photon

Published 3/27/2023 | 4 MINUTE READ

Fixturing Castings Made Simple Through Adhesive Workholding

When a casting proved too malleable for traditional gripping, Thomas/Euclid Industries adopted — and succeeded with — Blue Photon adhesive workholding.

Soft material was not the EV strut housing’s only workholding challenge: The part barely fit the UMC 750’s travels. Potential fixtures needed to be low-profile enough to ensure the part continued to fit the machine. Images courtesy of Thomas/Euclid.

As metals go, aluminum is soft and quick to bend — factors which make it easy to work with for most machining applications but make workholding to tolerances of 0.0005 inch unfeasible with traditional grippers. The force required to perform workholding could send the part out of tolerance, requiring rework or scrap. For Thomas/Euclid Industries, this difficulty became the push it needed to experiment with alternative forms of workholding, utilizing Blue Photon’s adhesive grippers to perform contactless gripping on an EV strut housing made from an aluminum casting.

Maximizing Lights-on Profits

Thomas/Euclid is primarily an aerospace manufacturer — EV automotive parts are not the norm for the company. In this case, the job came about not long after the shop installed a Matsuura MX 330 five-axis machine. The new machine’s automation capacity enabled the shop to run many of the jobs previously on its five-axis Haas UMC 750 for longer periods, decreasing the time necessary to complete these jobs even as it left the UMC 750 idle. Ryan Merrill, chief operating officer at Thomas/Euclid, says the search for additional work to put on the shop’s UMC 750 led the company to a customer already committed to machining EV strut housings.

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Blue Photon Workholding System Simplifies Part Loading

March 10th, 2023 by Blue Photon

Published 3/7/2023 | 2 MINUTE READ
Appears in Print as: ‘Workholding System Simplifies Part Loading’

Blue Photon Workholding System Simplifies Part Loading

PMTS 2023: The workholding stabilizer puck simplifies how parts are loaded, reducing scrap, enabling faster feed rates and increasing spindle uptime.

Blue Photon has designed a system using workholding grippers and insert components for use with Big Daishowa and other stabilizer systems. The system holds the workpiece without drilling and tapping into the part or with the need to clamp the part.

The unit is easily adjustable when positioning to grip the part wherever needed to stabilize the workpiece. The unit enables the transfer of loads to the machine table and base. The stabilizer puck simplifies how parts are loaded, reducing scrap, enabling faster feed rates and increasing spindle uptime.

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Adhesive Workholding Pallet System Designed for Complex Parts

April 22nd, 2022 by Blue Photon

Published 4/20/2022 | 1 MINUTE READ

Adhesive Workholding Pallet System Designed for Complex Parts

Blue Photon’s Grip Pallets are designed for quick change and adhesive workholding of complex and hard-to-hold parts for EDM, grinding, inspection, laser and milling operations

Blue Photon has added five Grip Pallets and three new inserts for 52- and 96-mm quick-change receiver systems. The addition enables more applications using existing fixturing systems in machining centers. Blue Photon Grip Pallets are designed to simplify how parts are loaded, reduce scrap and increase spindle uptime.

Available in 150, 225 and 300 mm square pallets, the Grip Pallets are designed for quick change and adhesive workholding of complex and hard-to-hold parts for EDM, grinding, inspection, laser and milling operations. The pallets can hold parts securely, providing increased machining access on five to six surfaces while using standardized fixturing systems already in place.

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(VIDEO) Swarf Talk: Blue Photon Video Clip

September 29th, 2021 by Blue Photon

Check out the video clip about Blue Photon using ultraviolet light to cure BlueGrip workholding adhesive on the grippers!

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Learn more about the world’s only ultraviolet workholding technology

June 29th, 2021 by Blue Photon

Blue Photon® will demonstrate the advantages of their ultraviolet (UV) workholding technology at the Ceramics Expo, Gosigerfest, Rapid+tct, Southtec and Wichita Industrial Trade Show this fall.

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The NEW, 2021 Blue Photon Product Catalog is ready for viewing and download.

January 28th, 2021 by Blue Photon

Blue Photon’s workholding technology solutions.
Blue Photon is pleased to announce the release of new products to the Blue Photon workholding system line-up. Blue Photon is committed to revolutionizing the workholding industry. This is achieved by using innovative ultraviolet (UV) technology to design unique workholding and fixturing for specialized applications. Our customers in turn receive the solutions they need most. If you have machining challenges, you’re sure to find a solution with Blue Photon’s workholding system.

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(VIDEO) Ultraviolet (UV) Workholding Technology for Additive Manufacturing

May 28th, 2020 by Blue Photon

How do you hold additive parts for post-machining?

Blue Photon workholding products are designed to hold complexed-shaped, additive parts for tight-tolerance machining, and final finishing while creating better parts, and lowering manufacturing costs. To learn why we are the world’s solution to holding additive parts, check out the video below:

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(VIDEO) Blue Photon Product Video

May 28th, 2020 by Blue Photon

Blue Photon is ecstatic to announce the following release of their new product video with examples demonstrating the Blue Photon technology and workholding system.

For a more in-depth visual of how Blue Photon’s ultraviolet (UV) workholding technology is a solution to your workholding needs, check out the video below:

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