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Tooling by Design
achieve a cycle time of design to product within a few hours or days as compared to a typical period of weeks or months required for conventional sheetmetal-forming processes.
The digital world also is working hard to keep pace with advancing stamping technology by delivering more accurate sheetmetal-formability analysis; improving springback pre- diction and responding to variations in the stamping process; simulating programmable servo-press slides in combination with programmable servo-driven transfer systems to optimize strokes per minute; optical scanning technology (white light and/or blue light scanners) to capture and digitize dies and parts produced off dies in order to assess and appropriately modify the tooling; and morphing solutions that enable rapid and repeatable development of compensated die sur- faces, to name a few.
So how can metal stampers and tool and die shops keep pace? Plan to attend PMA’s Metal Stamping Technology and Tool & Die Conference in Chicago on December 6-7, 2016. Also, consider joining me at some of the many stamping technical tracks being offered at FABTECH, November 16- 18, 2016. Receive a 30-percent discount on your FABTECH stamping-track sessions using the discount code SPK30.
Visit www.fabtechexpo.com/education for more infor- mation. MF
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