Page 5 - MetalForming Magazine May 2022

May 2022 | Volume 56 — Number 5
Cover Story
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF
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18 Rebuildor Retrofit That
Aging Hydraulic Press?
Fabrication
22 News & Technology
24 ERPTrends&
Expectations for 2022
According to the 2021 State of Manufacturing Digital Transformation survey by ECI Software Solutions, nearly 95 percent of manufacturers say that their ERP solutions helped them manage the impacts of the pandemic. Here we present some of the most notable ERP trends.
26 PressBrake’s Automatic
Tool Changer
...reduces setup time by a factor of 10 and transfers much of the process expertise from the shop floor to the engineering office, transitioning the role of operators into process designers and programmers and moving traditional blue-collar work into the realm of white-collar.
30 HowERPEnables
Shop-Floor Success
Proper ERP integrates with information from MES and nesting software to provide visibility into the three Ms—machine, manpower and material.
Features
32 CobotBinPicking is Top Pick for
Assembly Application
The Schaeffler Group employs a cobot- anchored solution to properly pick and place stamped parts.
36 3DMetalPrinting
Experience and Tech Tour
The event, June 7-8 in Hartford, CT, features two terrific tours where attendees can see metal additive manufacturing in action.
40 MetalFormingLive
Three live online events in July assemble MetalForming’s stellar columnists to headline expert roundtable discussions.
Commentaries
4 Editorial
Have You Heard of Generation T?
Brad Kuvin
16 Tooling by Design
Estimating Reverse Tonnage During Die Design
Peter Ulintz
42 Metal Matters
Crystallography 101
Daniel J. Schaeffler, Ph.D.
Departments
News Fronts Tech Update Software for Spotlight on Classifieds . Ad Index . . .
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