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MetalForming
January 2017 | Volume 51 — Number 1 Cover Story
Features
36 Confused About Tool Coatings?
These Tips Will Help
Key areas abound where manufacturers can identify stamping challenges and narrow coating options to avoid a lack of success or, worse, even more problems.
Commentaries
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Finding Manufacturing’s Fountain of Youth
Brad F. Kuvin
The Science of Forming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Coping with the New Steel Properties and Processes
Stuart Keeler
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Technology Forum for Die Shops
Peter Ulintz
Departments
News Fronts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Tech Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Software for Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Spotlight on PMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
16
Optimizing
Transfer-System
Motion—The
Money is in SPM
Simulation of transfer-press motion only to verify interference-free processing isn’t good enough. Stampers should aim to optimize motion curves, following the advice offered here, to eke out additional strokes/min. (SPM) from their transfer presses.
Features
20 Automated Press-Brake Technology
...has fabricator looking beyond the numbers.
24 A New Game in Town:
What to Expect from
Washington, D.C.
The election of Donald Trump, backed by a Republican majority in Congress, promises a decidedly different course of action by the U.S. government. Read on to see what may be in the offing.
28 Not Your Father’s Feeder
Thanks to advancements in servo-motor design and performance, as well as a controls revolution and other improvements to tackle tougher materials, press-feed systems perform better than ever.
32 Fiber-Laser Cutting to the Rescue
Quicker lead time, faster response to part design changes, better service for low- volume customers...for these reasons and more, Weber Specialties couldn’t be happier about its new addition.
Ad Index
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