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AHSS Tooling Requires Greater Protection
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September 13, 2005
Just as the coating on M&M's® breaks under pressure, tool coatings have a tough time standing up to the extreme pressure of advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) forming. Because AHSS requires twice the energy force to form ( Figure 1 )... Read more... -
Advanced lubricants improve high-strength steel forming
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March 8, 2005
Advanced or ultrahigh-strength steel (AHSS or UHSS) use in more than 60 percent of structural automotive stampings has changed the rules when it comes to tooling surface, heat and friction control, robotic automation, and paint... Read more... -
Chemical-free cleaning of HSP lubricants
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September 14, 2004
Because stamping suppliers increasingly are required to provide clean, oil-free stampings and assemblies, the focus on parts cleaning cost has intensified. Many companies have discovered that the cost of adding a cleaning system to a press line... Read more... -
Advanced lubricant technology for high-strength steel
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June 8, 2004
Figure 1 As if the recent rise in steel prices weren't enough, now automotive stamping suppliers are faced with the difficult task of getting high-strength steel (HSS) to form parts with tooling designed for mild steel. In an effort... Read more... -
Gaining from friction and formability data
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February 12, 2004
Figure 1 Business owners now are paying closer attention to forming lubricants. Why? Because new data has linked lubricants to an important driver of business profits—steel efficiency. With metal representing close to half of a... Read more... -
Meeting ISO 14001 requirements
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November 6, 2003
First published in 1996, ISO 14001 specifies the actual requirements for an environmental management system. It applies to those environmental aspects an organization can control. Achieving ISO 14001 requires documented improvement. First, you... Read more... -
Investing in lubricants
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October 9, 2003
Raw materials and overhead account for 75 percent (see Figure 1) of an average metal forming company's total operating cost. Improving these two areas can make the biggest impact on your bottom line. But what if you've optimized your... Read more... -
Stretching metal's forming limits with HSP lubricants
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June 12, 2003
The trend in metal stamping is to use more and more aluminum and other lightweight materials, such as advanced high strength steel (AHSS). The need for technology to help improve metal flow of these materials in deep-drawing applications also is... Read more... -
Measuring Lubricants' Impact on Metal Formability
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February 27, 2003
By looking at the relationship between metal formability and lubricant, we can make some significant discoveries. Both the metal and lubricant used influence the formability outcome. If the part requires a given N value of steel, but the... Read more... -
Forming exhaust components with an alternative lubricant
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September 12, 2002
In spring 2000 Zeuna Staerker ( www.zeunastaerker.de ), a manufacturer of exhaust system components, took a critical look at the lubricant it was using to mandrel-bend 300-series stainless steel tubing. Although the parts it manufactured, exhaust... Read more...
