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Q8. What percentage of your 2011 workholding budget will be spent on each of the listed products?

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2011

%Total
Investment

Milling/Drilling Processes

$751.4 mil Total

52.3

Dedicated fixtures for mills/machining centers

 

45.7

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

 

19.4

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

 

11.3

Workholding for automated milling/drilling systems and transfer lines

 

8.4

Pallets and pallet-handling devices

 

6.1

Other workholding/work handling devices, including robots

 

9.1

Turning Processes

$418.0 mil Total

29.1

Chucks

 

44.9

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

 

32.3

Bar feeds

 

9.6

Other work load/unload devices, including robots

 

13.2

Grinding Processes

$165.2 mil Total

11.5

Rotating chucks

 

27.2

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

 

53.8

Work load/unload devices

 

19.0

Other

$102.0 mil Total

7.1

EDM tooling

 

37.7

All other

 

62.3


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