High Volume Transfer Lines

Generally, high-volume transfer lines are composed of several machining stations together with
mechanisms for part transferring and fi xturing. A high-volume transfer line consists of a transfer
mechanism, a number of machining stations, and fi xturing mechanisms for the machining stations.
A part is presented to each machining station by a transfer mechanism, and it is clamped by
a fixturing mechanism. A number of asynchronous machining stations are synchronized by part
flow. Each mechanism and machining station is simply called a station. Each station performs a
particular process necessary to the overall production of the part using simple and fast motions.
Each motion is called an operation and a sequence of operations is associated with each station.
In the transfer line,all machining stations are milling stations and the motions in each machining 
station are provided by two or three single axis sliding mechanisms.