the blade 48 trims the end 44 at a safe distance beyond the ends of the manifolds 18 at the ends of the manifolds 18 that are not connected to the vacuum hoses 30 referring now to fig4 the workpiece 40 is supported by the reconfigurable workpiece support device 10 an edge 50 of the workpiece 40 is trimmed with the blade 48 of the cutting device 46 the blade 48 trims the edge 50 at a safe distance beyond the ends of the headers 12 other types of u201c machining u201d operations suitably include drilling and edge profiling routing grinding and polishing can also be performed by using different types of u201c cutters u201d in the spindle of the machine the workpiece support fixture 10 can be used to support work for either a conventional multi axis machine or a manufacturing robot as desired for a specific application the workpiece support fixture 10 can also support determinant assembly operatons in other embodiments the workpiece may be held in place with any suitable attraction force that is appropriate for the workpiece being worked upon for example the attraction force may be a magnetic force when the workpiece is made of a material that may be attracted to a magnetic force referring now to fig5 an exemplary reconfigurable workpiece support fixture 200 according to another nonlimiting embodiment includes attachment devices 220 the attachment devices 220 may include any suitable electromagnets the electromagnets 220 are electrically connected to an electrical source not shown as desired to attach the workpiece to the reconfigurable workpiece support fixture 200 in one non limiting embodiment an electrical junction box 226 is attached to the base 14 an input jack 228 is provided for electrically connecting the electrical junction box 226.