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Volume 42, Number 4
MetalForming magazine
April 2008
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FEATURES
 Value Added Drives Automotive Suppliers (pdf 221k)
It’s no secret that responsibility is shifting downward through the automotive supply chain. Here’s how some suppliers handle that responsibility via value-added work to keep customers satisfied.
Servo Power Solves In-Die-Assembly Dilemma (pdf 138k)
A pair of gap-frame presses and a straightside press, all equipped with servo technology, deliver a slew of benefits to this automotive-parts stamper. Included is the ability to program slide motion and adjust stroke length, allowing the firm to quote jobs it would not have considered in the past.
Advantages of Controlled Slide Velocity (pdf 384k)
Want to optimize quality and productivity during blanking, forming, drawing, embossing, coining and other mechanical-press operations? Think slide control.
 ICOSPA: Michigan to Welcome the World’s Metalformers (pdf 121k)
The 2008 ICOSPA Congress lands in Grand Rapids this September. If your metalforming business can survive without a global perspective, more power to ya. But if you’re like most metalformers and global opportunities are in your sights, then Grand Rapids has to be in your travel plans come fall.
TOOLING TECHNOLOGY
 Stamper Replaces Carbide Tooling with Coated DC53 (pdf 104k)
Application of a high-performance tool coating combines with an upgrade in tool steel to deliver a host of benefits to metalformer Toledo Technologies, including improved surface finish of coined parts and minimized die wear.
COMMENTARIES
Editorial (pdf 43k) by Brad F. Kuvin
In the Words of Sergeant Phil Esterhaus: "Hey, Let’s be Careful Out There"
The Science of Forming (pdf 61k) by Stuart Keeler
How Laws of Nature Control Your Stamping
Tooling by Design (pdf 50k) by Peter Ulintz
High Stress in the Pressroom
Metalforming Electronics (pdf 52k) by George Keremedjiev
The Team Approach to Sensors
Blackman on Taxes (pdf 38k)
by Irving L. Blackman www.TaxSecretsOfTheWealthy.com
Best Retirement Plan I Have Ever Seen
You & the Law (pdf 56k) by Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Firing on Same Day as Learning of EEOC Discrimination Charge Infers Retaliation
BackTalk (pdf 41k) by Louis A. Kren
What More Can We Do?
DEPARTMENTS
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