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Fabrication
22 News & Technology
24 Light-Gauge
Laser Tube Cutting
...at VanRon Steel Services positions the full-service supplier of tube and steel products to take on prototype and short-run jobs for office- furniture and medical-equipment OEMs, among others, quickly and cost-competitively. Now, it’s considering graduating to higher- throughput cutting equipment.
28 Resistance-Welding Training Helps
the Best Get Better
Knapheide Manufacturing’s entire welding team recently completed the industry’s first Certified Resistance Welding Training (CWRT) seminar, with three attaining the CRWT credential so far. Here’s how the training has paid off for the truck-body and bed manufacturer.
MetalForming
January-February 2022 | Volume 56 — Number 1
Cover Story
Features
16 BootsontheGround in Washington, D.C., Pays Dividends
PMA leadership long has recognized the need for continued boots-on-the-ground representation in our nation’s capital, and to educate the public on the importance of manufacturing issues. Its One Voice lobbying team excels in this mission, and is needed more today than ever before.
31 2022:GrowthOpportunities
Ahead for Metal Formers
...provided they successfully clear some looming hurdles.
37 WhereServo-Electric Presses Fit
How does a servo-electric press work, and when does it make sense—or not—over hydraulic and mechanical presses?
39 Servomechanical
a Sound Investment
Servomechanical presses deliver the functionality of both mechanical and hydraulic presses while increasing precision, and ultimately deliver power- saving and noise-reducing productivity and flexibility in smaller footprints.
Commentaries
4 Editorial
A New Year, a New MetalForming Column Brad Kuvin
14 Tooling by Design
Considerations for Transfer-Die Design Peter Ulintz
41 Metal Matters
Edge Cracking in Advanced, Automotive Steels
Daniel J. Schaeffler, Ph.D.
Departments
News Fronts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Tech Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Software for Manufacturing . . . . . . . 12 Spotlight on PMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Ad Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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