Research underway at the Nottingham Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre of the University of Nottingham (Nottingham, England) is entitled: Modeling and Control of Part-Fixture Behaviour in Precision Grinding of Complex Parts. It’s common to find engineering practitioners relying solely on their experience to develop fixturing solutions for an array of machining, inspection, assembly, and manufacturing operations. As workpiece geometries and manufacturing processes become more complicated, it is becoming increasingly more difficult and timeconsuming to develop effective fixturing solutions to meet every single technical and commercial requirement. During the development of new fixturing solutions, it is still a common practice to develop and test a prototype of a new fixture design in an actual manufacturing environment to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed design. This leads to higher costs and longer lead-times, especially when ineffective fixture designs have to be iteratively improved, prototyped, and retested. The principal objective of this project is to develop a fixture-workpiece simulation technology that will allow manufacturers and fixture designers to quickly and easily evaluate the effectiveness of a fixture design and improve it without costly prototypes and tests. More specifically, the objectives of this research project include: