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MetalForming
An Official Publication of
May 2013 | Volume 47 — Number 5 Cover Story
16 How High is High for Automotive Steels
Are we seriously talking about forming automotive parts from steel products that are more than six times as strong as mild steel? And, if we now can formulate these extremely strong steels, what’s the limit?
Features
Tooling Technology
40 What’s New
in Die Design?
Plenty...with more robust libraries, improved import/export functions, and advanced algorithms that take accuracy to new levels and reduce design time and lead time.
Commentaries
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Turning Skilled Workers into Masters of Machinery
Brad F. Kuvin
The Science of Forming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
The Complex Properties of Advanced High-Strength Steels
Stuart Keeler
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Online
Slide Tipping Moments
Peter Ulintz
Departments
20 Grinding Operations:
Real Wheel Productivity
and Cost
Here’s a close evaluation of abrasive- grinding performance and cost when grinding in job shops and production- manufacturing operations.
24 Mining Nuggets of Gold
Along the Fiber-Laser
Learning Curve
Since Premier Tooling & Manufacturing brought previously outsourced laser-cutting work inhouse, via the acquisition of a 3-kW fiber-laser cutting machine, it’s been able to gain unexpected benefits from process improvements such as pierce-less cutting.
26 Justifying the Purchase of a Servo-Driven Press
...using eight principles of improved productivity, flexibility and quality, and reduced costs.
30 The Big Island Welcomes the MFG Meeting
36 The Fruits of Forming
Threads in a Turret
Press
To manufacture cell-phone display
kiosks, Chicago sheetmetal
fabricator Midland Metal Products
dials up big savings by employing threadform tooling in its CNC punch presses to eliminate welding and use of self-clinching nuts.
News Fronts Tech Update
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