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Q8. What percentage of your 2008 workholding budget will be spent on each of the listed products?

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2008

%Total
Investment

Milling/Drilling Processes

$856.7 mil Total

48.0

Dedicated fixtures for mills/machining centers

 

52.1

Flexible fixturing for mills/machining centers (modular, tombstones,etc.)

 

18.1

Indexing devices (rotary tables, dividing heads, etc.)

 

6.3

Workholding for automated milling/drilling systems and transfer lines

 

10.2

Pallets and pallet-handling devices

 

6.2

Other workholding/work handling devices, including robots

 

7.1

Turning Processes

$596.1 mil Total

33.4

Chucks

 

56.7

Other workholding for turning (centers, steady equal 100%)

 

28.4

Bar feeds

 

7.3

Other work load/unload devices, including robots

 

7.6

Grinding Processes

$248.1 mil Total

13.9

Rotating chucks

 

17.1

Other workholding for grinding (magnetic chucks, fixtures, etc.)

 

65.2

Work load/unload devices

 

17.7

Other

$83.9 mil Total

4.76

EDM tooling

 

45.2

All other

 

54.8


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