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Volume 42, Number 10
MetalForming Magazine
October 2008
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COVER STORY/TOOLING TECHNOLOGY
In-Die Fastening Pays Off at PWO Canada
This stamper employs in-die technology to attach fasteners to an automotive bracket at high speeds, heading off assembly concerns and improving productivity and part quality.
FEATURES
 Safety Manager: A Day in the Life
Workplace safety isn’t just a slogan or a poster. It’s a day-in, day-out commitment. Safety managers are on the front line in promoting a safe metalforming operation, and here’s how one safety manager gets the job done.
 Improved Hydraulics Manage Spring Force, Slash Cycle Time
New hydraulic-press technology allows Sensormatic to achieve near-perfect quality and slash cycle time by more than 50 percent on lines used to blank styrene-coated metallic security labels, 144 per press stroke.
 Proper Maintenance and Care for your Hydraulic Presses
Adhering to a routine preventive-maintenance schedule is the most important aspect of consistent, trouble-free hydraulic-press operation. Adequate planning coupled with a commonsense, proactive approach will optimize press life and productivity.
 From Promise Maker to President
It’s election time, where candidates vie for the honor of running the county. Like sailors on leave, they’re looking to spend, spend, spend. But unlike sailors on leave, they are looking to spend, spend, spend someone else’s money, namely ours. So where do they want our dollars to go?
China Mission #4 Complete: Mission Accomplished
Last May, metalforming executives participated in the fourth in a series of PMA China Study Missions, to benchmark against Chinese metalforming operations and develop strategies for forging partnerships.
COMMENTARIES
Editorial by Brad F. Kuvin
Green Manufacturing—What’s the Bottom Line
The Science of Forming by Stuart Keeler
A Different Look at Rules of Friction
Tooling by Design by Peter Ulintz
Cutting and Punching Sequence
Metalforming Electronics by George Keremedjiev
The Challenge of Part-Out Sensing, Part 2
Blackman on Taxes
by Irving L. Blackman www.TaxSecretsOfTheWealthy.com
Leveraged Gifts, Tax Break for the Family
You & the Law by Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Promises, Promises
BackTalk (pdf 40k) by Louis A. Kren
Plan for Disaster
DEPARTMENTS
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