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Volume 43, Number 3
MetalForming Magazine
March 2009
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COVER STORY
Automated Blank Destacking-How Much Do You Need?
Mind these tips when deciding on the level of automation. Here's one: Consider your part mix, line load, press capacities, operating costs, quality standards and related workplace-safety issues. They all will impact the level of destacking automation required.
FEATURES
 A Better Way to Move Scrap
Cannon Automotive employs automated scrap handling to improve press uptime, efficiently move and store material, and save on stamping lubricant.
 Is Welding Automation Right for Your Operation?
Converting a semiautomatic welding process to a fast, productive and fully automated process requires much more than just deciding to do so, and then investing the money and time to make it happen.
 Better Part Nesting Brings Fab Results
Incorporating part-nesting software on its fabricating equipment has enabled Johnson Controls to save significant dollars via material savings and productivity improvements.
TOOLING TECHNOLOGY
 Create a Die-Change Standard, and Never Stop Improving
Efforts toward continuous improvement in the pressroom should include a never-ending search for ways to decrease die-change times. Such is the case at tailor-welded-blank manufacturer TWB Co.
COMMENTARIES
Guest Editorial by William E. Gaskin
Building Bridges, Avoiding Potholes
The Science of Forming by Stuart Keeler
Living on the Edge
Tooling by Design by Peter Ulintz
Forming Aluminum Stampings-Part 1
Metalforming Electronics by George Keremedjiev
Don't Lose Sensor Expertise
You and The Law
by Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Ohio Intentional Workplace Torts: "Deliberate Intent to Injure" or "Substantial Certainty?"
BackTalk by Louis A. Kren
Technical Conference Tailored for Today's Challenges
DEPARTMENTS
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