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MetalForming
November 2012 | Volume 46 — Number 11 Cover Story
16 Maximizing
Your Laser’s
Productivity
Here’s a few tips and tricks to extract the maximum amount of flexibility from your laser-cutting machines
Features
20 New Controls
...mitigate the risk factors to optimizing press uptime at this Midwest metalformer, where investing in new controls is part of an improvement plan, not just a means of cost avoidance. Aging controls not only had become difficult to maintain, they simply could not support the company’s move to in-die sensing and quick-die-change technology.
Tooling Technology
34 Cushions Part of
the Servo Revolution
Designed to complement servo presses, servo-controlled hydraulic cushions promise fine-tuning to produce better parts, save presses from shock, reduce scrap and tame tough steels.
Commentaries
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
There Are Sparks Among Your Workforce— Find Them, and Fuel Them
Brad F. Kuvin
The Business of Metalforming . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
28 Never Check a Part Again
Here’s a process-control approach to ensuring stamping quality during production.
Ad Index
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Center Dies Quickly and Accurately
...with no prying and bumping, using the methods and equipment described here.
Professional Services vs. DIY Marketing— Finding the Right Balance
Nancy Lesinski
The Science of Forming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Why Should You Converse with Your Stamping?
Stuart Keeler
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Progressive-Die Strip Evaluation—Part III
Peter Ulintz
You and The Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
OSHA on the Move
Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Departments
News Fronts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tech Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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