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more. You will be meeting with these sales representatives in your company’s lobby, meeting room or toolmaker’s bench, etc., and you will be officially representing your company. Your busi- ness card does not have to have a title for you (a sticking point for some) rather its importance is in your contact infor- mation. If you do not have a company e-mail account—request one. Do not take someone else’s business card, and scratch off the printed name and hand- write yours in its place. Not a very pro- fessional thing to do.
Sensor Test Bench
Scavenge a used but sturdy bench with a shelf that you can dedicate to full- time sensor experiments. You do not want to experiment with sensors on the actual dies or tooling. In future columns I will guide you as how to conduct these experiments, but they must take place at a dedicated sensor test bench.
As you will see, even if your budget prevents you from buying the fancier test equipment that is available, you will still have excellent results by utiliz- ing your existing toolroom equipment to determine the best placement for the sensors in your dies and tooling with the final testing to take place on this sensor test bench. Placing this bench near your personal workbench would be a good idea. When monies are very limited, you do not need to have a separate room to locate the sensor test bench. The library should be placed on the shelf of the sensor test bench or next to it with- in a small and inexpensive bookcase.
By next month, those of you with tight company budgets and pressing needs for die protection should have the library in place along with your business card and the sensor test bench. The next column will show how to test your sensor ideas by using the existing equip- ment in your toolroom.
When it comes to sensors, tight budgets do not necessarily mean lean imaginations. MF
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