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MetalForming
April 2023 | Volume 57 — Number 4
Cover Story
Features
14 What’s a Good 100-Yr. Birthday Gift? A
1375-Ton Servo Press!
A.J. Rose celebrated 100 years of supplying stampings and assemblies—a significant milestone to be sure. Coming in a close second: adding a huge 1375-ton servomechanical press to the shop floor.
32 ChallengesinAM for Cold and Hot Stamping Tooling
We may never see lights-out additive manufacturing for cost-effective production of large-scale full tools, but the technology can bring big gains in selective build and repair applications.
Commentaries
4 Editorial
Are You Winning Your Workers Over? Brad Kuvin
12 Tooling by Design
Increasing Press Speed and (In)Efficiency Peter Ulintz
36 Metal Matters
Save Time, Money and Weight with Tailored Parts
Daniel J. Schaeffler, Ph.D.
18 Refined Steel Recipes
& Annealing Curves
...continue to allow advanced high- strength grades to push high- strength low-alloy steels to the sidelines, giving body-in-white designers more design freedom and allowing for improved lightweighting and safety.
Special Section
FAFaBbrRicIaCtioAnTION
22 News & Technology
24 WhyAutomated Deburring Works in Fabrication
Need quicker throughput with fewer rejects—and safer employees doing more rewarding work? Then automated deburring might be right for you.
28 SmartProgramming Software Delivers Big Robotic Welding Gains
Van Hool employs robotic welding to assemble chassis for buses and other large vehicles. Artificial- intelligence-based software learns as it goes to increasingly improve offline robot programming, netting significant increases in arc welding throughput.
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