Page 4 - MetalForming February 2016

MetalForming
February 2016 | Volume 50 — Number 2
Cover Story
Features
34 Precise Cylinder Control Delivers
High Productivity on
Hot-Forming Press
Missouri Metals decided to construct its own press to produce titanium parts. Key to the system is a motion controller that enables independent cylinder control, and allows the company to produce two parts in the press simultaneously while dramatically reducing material waste.
Commentaries
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
One Word Likely to Define 2016: Volatility
Brad F. Kuvin
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Press Energy and Deep Drawing
Peter Ulintz
The Science of Forming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Questions Answered Regarding Advanced High-Strength Steels
Stuart Keeler
Departments
32 Sky’s the Limit for California Waterjet Shop
Arro-Jet Engineering and Consulting, with its expanded and versatile waterjet- machine roster, lands a contract cutting huge aircraft parts for Boeing.
Features
14 Servo Payoff at Bayloff
The addition of a servo-driven press at Bayloff Stamped Products allows the Michigan metalformer to increase capacity while gaining expertise on just what servo technology can deliver.
16 From Pushbuttons
to Touchscreens
...and from two-color alphanumeric parameter displays of operating parameters presented on black backgrounds to full-color graphical LCD displays, today’s press controls provide widescreen windows into the modern-day stamping process.
22 FABTECH 2015— It’s a Wrap
With North America’s premier forming, fabricating and welding event in the books, MetalForming shares some of the new technologies and products spied on the show floor.
News Fronts
Tech Update Safety Update . . . Spotlight on PMA Classifieds . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2 MetalForming/February 2016
www.metalformingmagazine.com
Ad Index
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .