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Volume 40, Number 8
MetalForming magazine
August 2006
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FEATURES
Refrigerators—Keep Cool, Look Cool (pdf 144k)
No more boxy rectangles. Deep-drawn panels, courtesy of a new hydraulic-press cell, give Whirlpool’s top-of-the line refrigerators a whole new look.
Timing Curves—Principles and Practices (pdf 187k)
The sooner and the more often the stamper, die supplier and the transfer-finger supplier communicate to develop and fine-tune the timing curves for a given transfer-press project, the better the end result will be.
Twin Transfers Run as Tandem Tag Team (pdf 171k)
Coming soon to the Dana frame-manufacturing plant in Hopkinsville, KY: production stamping on two 2500-ton transfer presses that meet in the middle at a part-shuttle system that creates a two-press tandem line with 40 ft. of combined bed length.
Transfer Press Brings Welcomed Capacity in the Nick of Time (pdf 164k)
Topping off its three-year growth spurt to gear up for a huge automotive program comprising 270 parts and 400 dies, Anchor Manufacturing adds a 1200-ton transfer press with multi-directional functionality and optimum flexibility.
IMTS 2006 (pdf 126k)
Join 85,000 others at what’s billed as North America’s largest manufacturing and technology show.
New Press Ushers HVAC Part Production Inhouse (pdf 99k)
A 400-ton straightside gives Alabama stamper Hart & Cooley the tonnage and dependability it needs to bring previously outsourced part production home.

TOOLING TECHNOLOGY
Grinding Hardened Tool Steels (pdf 115k)
This article is excerpted from Tool and Die Making Troubleshooter, a book authored by Richard M. Leed and published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
COMMENTARIES
Editorial (pdf 43k) by Brad Kuvin
Graceful Manufacturing via Robust Processes
The Science of Forming (pdf 121k) by Stuart Keeler
Is Engineering Strain False?
Tooling by Design (pdf 51k) by Peter Ulintz
What’s in Your Toolbox?
Metalforming Electronics (pdf 58k) by George Keremedjiev
Southern Comfort
Blackman on Taxes (pdf 39k)
by Irving L. Blackman & Brian T. Whitlock
www.TaxSecretsOfTheWealthy.com
How to Turn $360,000 into $10 Million—Beat the Estate Tax
You & the Law (pdf 42k) by Douglas B. M. Ehlke
How Well Do You Know Your Independent Trucker?
BackTalk (pdf 56k) by William E. Gaskin
Next-Generation Leaders Go to Washington
DEPARTMENTS
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