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Volume 40, Number 2
MetalForming magazine
February 2006
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FEATURES
 Ford's New DP 600 Die Standards (pdf 114k)
Six months prior to launch of the 2005-model-year Ford Freestyle and 500 vehicles, both laden with DP 600 steel, Ford Motor Co. asks its engineers to prepare new die standards for trimming and drawing the advanced high-strength alloy.
Forming AHSS—Several Heads are Better than One
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Tool-and-die shops collaborate to help automotive OEMs and their suppliers form advanced high-strength steels.
 Selecting Stamping Lubricants for Advanced High-Strength Steels (pdf 140k)
What are the lube requirements when forming these ever-more-popular steels, and what lubes will work best?
 Considerations When Updating Your Press Controls (pdf 150k)
Many stampers have presses with controls dating from the 1970s-maybe older. Here's why you should consider upgrading your press controls, and some suggestions for doing so.
 Stamper Excels in Quality-Critical Components (pdf 177k)
Meeting excruciatingly tight tolerances on precision stampings for primarily medical and automotive customers, offering a vast array of value-added processes and meticulously tracking quality control allows this 94-year-old stamper to stay young at heart.
TOOLING TECHNOLOGY
 Forming with a Turret Punch Press (pdf 147k)
…helps this New York fabricator take on unique work such as production of architectural panels for a Frank Lloyd Wright home.
COMMENTARIES
Editorial (pdf 42k) by Brad Kuvin
Strengthening Labor Unions Coming to the Rescue?
The Science of Forming (pdf 118k) by Stuart Keeler
Forming Speed and Stretchability-Part 2
Tooling by Design (pdf 134k) by Tim Stephens
Self-Contained Stripper Units Save the Day
Metalforming Electronics (pdf 80k) by George Keremedjiev
A Clear Sensor Path with Radar
Blackman on Taxes (pdf 34k)
by Irving L. Blackman & Brian T. Whitlock
www.TaxSecretsOfTheWealthy.com
When Your Circumstances Change, Your Estate Plan Should Change, Too
You & the Law (pdf 42k) by Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Drug Tests and Workers' Compensation
BackTalk (pdf 34k) by Louis A. Kren
Partnering Toward a Safer Workplace
DEPARTMENTS
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