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Volume 40, Number 7
MetalForming magazine
July 2006
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FEATURES
Made in California (pdf 207k)
Pacific Coast metalformers and fabricators ride waves of unique challenges. Here’s how they stay on the board.
 Lean-Manufacturing Principles Reduce Turret-Press Setup Times (pdf 251k)
When setup times start to rise, efficiently run shops strive to use as much of a standard turret load as possible, and create and enforce simple housekeeping rules.
 Look Who’s Making Ultra-Smooth, Ultra-Clean Steel Sheets (pdf 154k)
Thanks to this Tennessee toll processor, metal fabricators in the Southeast now have ready access to ultra-clean, flat and smooth sheetmetal blanks, ideal for worry-free laser cutting, welding and painting.
 Die Development—Avoid Knee-Jerk Problem Solving (pdf 69k)
Metrology software helps a stamping shop’s die detectives solve a unique automotive tooling problem, carving weeks from the troubleshooting schedule and saving thousands of dollars.
TOOLING TECHNOLOGY
 Automation an Efficient Means to 100-percent Inspection (pdf 113k)
The need to eliminate a stretch carrier in production of a drawn automotive part provided a perfect opportunity to test computer forming simulation. Cutting die-tryout cost from $18,000 to $3600 demonstrates that simulation passed with flying colors.
 Need to Justify a Die-Protection Program? (pdf 74k)
If so, then talk to the decision makers in a language they understand: assets and liabilities, dollars and cents. To do that you’ll need to determine the true costs of die crashes.
COMMENTARIES
Editorial (pdf 44k) by Brad Kuvin
The Sum is Greater than its Parts
The Science of Forming (pdf 103k) by Stuart Keeler
Process Changes Can Increase Cup Height
Tooling by Design (pdf 76k) by Peter Ulintz
Counterintuitive Engineering
Metalforming Electronics (pdf 54k) by George Keremedjiev
Negotiating Sensor Prices
Blackman on Taxes (pdf 38k)
by Irving L. Blackman & Brian T. Whitlock
www.TaxSecretsOfTheWealthy.com
Some Little Known—But Important—Tax Strategies to Save You Money
You & the Law (pdf 37k) by Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Light-Duty Accommodation Does Not Convert Temporary Position into Permanent One
BackTalk (pdf 34k) by Louis A. Kren
California Dreamin’, California Reality
DEPARTMENTS
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