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25 Years of
MetalForming
keeps presses, lasers and other process- es humming after hours. We’re bringing in new high-powered ERP software platforms that are setting new stan- dards for the flow of information through our plants, with capabilities like integrated quality, capacity and inventory management.
We’re welcoming a completely new type of machines into our factories, such as servo-mechanical stamping presses and hot-stamping lines, next- generation hybrid and electric press brakes and turret presses and fast- cutting and efficient fiber lasers. New programming software for these machines improves usability and accuracy, even featuring 3D simula- tion and modeling to simplify pro- gramming and operation.
Press controls have continued to evolve, pushing press uptimes higher than ever before, while bringing PPM levels to all-time lows. Changeover times have dwindled, machinery throughput has skyrocketed and over- all costs related to safety and quality continue to shrink. All of this adds up to the unthinkable just a few years ago— that is, reshoring of work moved to China and other “low-cost countries” back to the United States. Our plants are leaner, greener and cleaner than ever before. We’re experts in optimizing measures like value-add per employee and inventory turns.
I can’t wait to see what the future holds for the metalforming industry and the technology on whose back it rides. In my January 2012 signed edi- torial I wrote:
“This is indeed a very exciting time for metalformers, as our industry undergoes a period of rapid and sig- nificant technology evolution.”
And that evolution continues, with no end in sight. As such, we remain committed, as we have been for the last 25 years as MetalForming maga- zine and the years before as Metal Stamping, to bringing forth the latest/ greatest technology to help our indus- try flourish—for the next 25 years, and beyond. MF
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