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MetalForming
June 2012 | Volume 46 — Number 6
Cover Story
24 Fiber Laser Makes the Cut at HVAC Manufacturer
Features
18 TheABCsof Laser-Cutting
Automation
Here’s advice on how to
select the right
automation solution—
shuttle table, load/unload system or flexible manufacturing system—for your laser- cutting machines, and what to expect from your choice. Want to boost beam-on time to 92 percent? Try an FMS.
28 InnovativeConveying Solutions
...help this welding-equipment manufacturer effectively move parts and scrap away from a new progressive-die mechanical press, helping to avoid bottlenecks as press speed increases by more than 300 percent compared to running production on aging hydraulic presses.
32 TinySlugsNoLongerInducing Conveying Headaches
Faced with mounting rollforming-line downtime and nagging conveyor jams, a manufacturer of storage racks finds safe haven by investing in magnetic conveyors whose drive chain rides on oil-impregnated UHMW track.
34 TheBasicsofCoilProcessingEquipment,Part2: Straightening the Coil
In part one of this series (January 2012 issue) on coil-processing equipment, we covered unwinding the coil. Here we focus on material straightening, to allow the sheet to pass freely through the die.
Tooling Technology
42 FromCADDrawing to Workable Die— Software Technology Keeps Improving
As die designers continue the transfer from 2D to 3D design while implementing integrated tool manufacture, software suppliers have delivered products with easier- to-use interfaces and robust simulation packages.
Commentaries
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Old School Won’t Cut It
Brad F. Kuvin
Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Capacity Management: The Difference Between Good and Great CraigFitzgerald
The Science of Forming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Use Statistical Deformation Control to Overcome Forming Problems Stuart Keeler
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Forensic Investigation—Press-Shop CSI, Part 2
Peter Ulintz
MetalformingElectronics ............Online
Sensor Frankensteins, Mutants and Zombies
George Keremedjiev
Departments
News Fronts
Tech Update Materials & Coatings Tooling Update . . . . . Classifieds . . . . . . . .
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