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MetalForming
August 2011 | Volume 45 — Number 8
Cover Story
16 Coil-LineUpgrades: Brains, not Brawn
This article focuses on coil-line upgrades and what can be achieved without buying new. Not that buying new is not a good option; it’s just not the only one.
Tooling Technology
40 ToolCoatingsKeep
Truck-Part Maker
in the Fast Lane
Combining ideal performance with the capacity to coat large details, Pentaflex has hit on a winning tool- coating formula.
Commentaries
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Coming Soon:
The Manufacturing ERP Experience Brad F. Kuvin
The Business of Metalforming . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Official Publication of
Features
29 PerforatedMetalsAdd Punch to Product Designs
We spoke with the Industrial Perforators Association and association member company Ferguson Perforating for a close look at the unique metal- perforating process, which competes with thermal hole-drilling processes due, in part, to its ability to create thousands of holes per minute without creating a heat-affected zone.
31 UsetheMeasurementof
Leadership, Communication
and Teamwork
...as a catalyst for sustainable culture change to ensure that
your company ends up on top. If you only measure, manage
and improve the same items as your competition, you will not differentiate yourself.
Manufacturing: The Engine of Prosperity
Michael Bleau
The Science of Forming . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
How Reliable are Your Test Results?
Stuart Keeler
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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34
PressInstalled Lickety-Split
It’s never good to suffer a press outage, but when such an outage occurs during peak seasonal production, the crisis reaches code red.
Production Engineering
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Organizational Performance Drivers
Surface Coatings for Draw Steels— A Time and a Place
Peter Ulintz
Blackman on Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Real-Life Succession-Planning Horror Story
Irving L. Blackman
Metalforming Electronics . . . . . . . .
Die Designs and Sensor Wiring
George Keremedjiev
Departments
News Fronts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tech Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In the Classroom. . . . . . . . . . . . . Safety Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tooling Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ad Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Purchasing Customer Service
Special Section
19 TheERPSoftwareExperience
Delivery Accounting Human Resources
ERP
Don’t Confuse How You Deploy ERP with
How You Pay For It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Factors Affecting ERP Implementation Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 What Every CIO Should Know About ERP Implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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