Turn Downtime
Into Runtime
RockLock™ is a zero-point quick-change system that turns a 45-minute setup into a few seconds. Mount the base once, drop in any pull-studded fixture, lock it with an allen wrench — and machine to a known zero, every time.
Stop re-finding zero on every job.
A zero-point clamping system is a hardened interface that sits between your machine table and your workholding. Instead of indicating a vise, tramming a fixture, and dialing in offsets for every new job, the fixture drops onto a base at one repeatable, known location — the zero point — and locks down in seconds.
RockLock™ is that interface. The base is installed once and stays put. Every fixture, vise, riser, pyramid, and tombstone you own carries four pull studs spaced to the industry-standard 52mm or 96mm grid, so any one of them seats to the same datum on any machine that has a base.
Set up off the machine. Swap on the machine in seconds. The spindle keeps cutting instead of waiting on an operator with a dial indicator.
Three reasons shops standardize on it.
A zero-point base does three things a bolted-down fixture never will — and they compound on every changeover, every part, every machine.
Minutes of setup, not hours.
Build and tram your fixture off-line while the machine is still cutting the last job. When it's time to change over, you drop the fixture onto the base and turn one allen wrench — no indicating, no edge-finding, no re-tramming.
Shops report setup-time reductions of 80–95%. That recovered time is spindle time you can sell.1
The same zero. Every single time.
A patented free-float design pulls all four pull studs down with equal force, seating the precision OD of each stud into the precision ID of the base. The result is repeatability of less than .0003″ — about 8 microns — clamp after clamp.
Established work offsets carry across jobs, so re-loading a fixture means re-running a proven program, not re-proving a setup.
One standard across your whole shop.
Because every base shares the same 52mm and 96mm pull-stud grid, a fixture built for one machine moves to any other machine with a base — no new adapter, no new setup. Stop building one-off subplates for every job that walks in the door.
The 52/96mm standard is the same grid the rest of the industry uses, so existing pull studs and competitive fixtures drop straight in.
Three steps. Zero guesswork.
The base goes on once. After that, every changeover for the life of the machine is the same simple motion.
Mount the base once
A RockLock™ base is installed and dialed in on your table, pallet, or 4th-axis one time. It's customized to your machine so it sits at a true, square zero from day one — then it never moves again.
Load a pull-studded fixture
Any vise, riser, pyramid, tombstone, or custom fixture carrying four 52/96mm pull studs sets onto the base. The studs self-locate into the hardened steel rings at the zero point.
Tighten to lock, cut
Turn the leadscrew with a single allen wrench from either side — no reaching around the part. The free-float cams pull down with equal force, and you run a known program against a known zero.
Two ways to set up
a job. One scales.
Every changeover has to put your workholding at a known location. The question is whether your operator re-establishes that location by hand on every job — or whether the hardware already holds it.
Dialing in sets up one job at a time.
A zero-point base sets up your shop.
One grid. A whole ecosystem.
Bases are the foundation — everything else clicks onto the same 52mm and 96mm zero-point grid. Start with a base and a few pull studs, then build out as the work demands.
Built for the machine you already run.
Every base is made to a specific table, pallet, or rotary — so it bolts down square and true on 3-, 4-, and 5-axis machines from the brands you already own. The 52/96mm grid is the industry standard, so it plays with competitive pull studs too.
Built from hardened steel.
The whole value of a zero-point system rests on one thing: it has to return to the same place forever. That's why every locating surface that touches a pull stud is hardened steel — not soft aluminum that wears out of tolerance.
These are the numbers that make a setup something you recall instead of rebuild.
The setup time you get back.
A zero-point system is bought with a simple calculation: how many setups you run, how long each one takes, and what an hour of spindle time is worth. The recovered hours pay the system back — usually fast.
Start with one base.
Standardize from there.
You don't have to convert the whole shop at once. Put a base on your busiest machine, add pull studs to the fixtures that change most, and grow the grid as the payback proves itself.
- Retrofit existing fixtures with pull studs — no need to rebuild tooling
- Free up your best machinists from re-indicating every job
- Move fixtures between machines without a new setup
Integrated, not bolted on.
Competitive systems often stack a separate connector plate between the pallet and the tooling, adding height, parts, and cost. RockLock™ builds the interface into the base and the tombstone at the factory, at a mid-market price.
- Fewer components in the stack-up means less Z-height lost
- Factory-integrated zero point on bases, risers, pyramids, and tombstones
- Hardened internals built to repeat for the life of the unit
What zero-point gives back, in dollars.
Move the sliders to match your shop. The estimate is built around the one number RockLock™ moves most — setup time — and what that recovered spindle time is worth.
Good to know.
Will RockLock™ work with my existing fixtures and tooling?
Is it compatible with Lang, Jergens, and other zero-point systems?
Can I retrofit machines I already have?
How much holding force does it provide?
How repeatable is it?
52mm or 96mm — which do I need?
Is there a workpiece weight limit?
How do I get the right base for my machine?
Find your
zero.
Tell us your machine make and model and what you're running. We'll spec the right base, pull studs, and fixtures to get you locking in — and a path to standardize the rest of the shop when you're ready.