Custom Workholding Fixtures Design & Engineering
DMT works to become an extension of your engineering team. We bring our years of experience and innovative design strategies to your project resulting in the most robust, repeatable, and reliable fixtures possible. Our design and engineering team’s experience eliminates many typical startup issues that occur. As a partner with our customer’s team, we conduct an exhaustive evaluation of your process to set a strong foundation that leads to predictable implementation and startup.
At DMT our Engineering and Manufacturing teams are fully integrated ensuring clear communication and exacting results for every fixture build. This level of collaboration results in the flawless execution of the design plans, freeing up your project managers to focus on other elements of the project during the workholding fixture build details.
At DMT WORKHOLDING we pride ourselves in having the best custom workholding fixtures engineering and design team in the industry. Our team is committed to delivering the best workholding fixture for your needs. This process starts in the concept engineering phase. Our concept engineers build detailed, custom quotes based on your project needs so you get a usable, reliable quote for your project budget. The concept phase is critical to the quoting process by ensuring relevance to the quote and a more predictable process during the design phase. Our collaborative process also assists you in designing the best possible fixture for your project.

We consider all design elements including automation, cutting tools, and machining centers specifications to ensure issues and conflicts are understood and resolved in the concept phase.
Once we are awarded the project, our Design Engineering team takes the Concept Engineering designs and your input to create the final fixture design. We engage with you to get “the rest of the story” i.e. tooling, machine specifics, part loading (end of arm tooling), casting attributes, and pressure specs. Taking these elements, adding all of our experience, know-how, and engineering practices, and incorporating your workholding culture results in the most robust fixture design and eliminates production conflicts. Once approved, the project moves into our manufacturing department.
Premier Craftsmanship
We put craftsmanship above all. Every morning we have over 200 years of workholding manufacturing experience on our production floor. With a healthy mix of journeymen and apprentices working side by side, our team has seen just about everything there is to see in custom workholding fixtures. We program everything using 3D modeling and integrate our proprietary practices proven over years of manufacturing to deliver you the gold standard in custom workholding fixtures.
Automation Migration
The transition from manual machining processes to automated machining processes can be frustrating and filled with pitfalls. Fixturing is one of the most critical elements to this transition. Count on our team to offer guidance, insight, and expert engineering to ensure your move from manual loading to automated loading goes as smoothly as possible. With our experience in a variety of designs and part-sensing solutions, we have helped numerous clients with this transition and updated their workholding fixtures to deliver the productivity gains expected.