Content tagged with "downtime"

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May 13, 2008

Driven to integrate A Parkview Metal Products worker operates a stamping press at the company's facility in Lake Zurich, IL. Parkview produces components for the automotive industry, consumer electronics, and barbecue grills. Changes come often in the steel industry. An item manufactured in the U.S. today can... Read more...

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April 15, 2008

Where sensors make sense Sensor-driven errorproofing can help stamping shops prevent the production of bad parts, die crashes, and downtime. Metal formers today find that increasingly customers are no longer satisfied with just a low percentage of defective parts, measured in parts per thousand. Today customers... Read more...

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November 6, 2007

Seeking tooling longevity BorgWarner Inc. is a drive-train developer and manufacturer that specializes in blanking and finishing of shafts, gear and spline rolling, grinding operations, and assembly. The Muncie, Ind., manufacturer of four-wheel-drive and traction control parts for the automotive industry was having a... Read more...

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August 8, 2007

Implementing a coil-end joiner Almost all metal stampers have downtime at the end of a steel coil. The amount of time a line is nonproductive between coils can vary. It's not uncommon for downtime to exceed 20 minutes. On heavy-gauge lines, where a coil's linear footage is low, the amount of downtime can be excessive. Pax... Read more...

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June 12, 2007

Tube fabricator, machine tool builder automates to accelerate Stealth Manufacturing Inc. fabricated its own tube unloader for its cutoff line. Instead of relying on special Allen wrenches to adjust the unloader each time a different-sized tube is switched out, the operator just turns the hand cranks for quicker changeovers. Editor's Note: This feature... Read more...

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March 13, 2007

Automotive blanker presses on The two consoles that control the two blanking lines at Kasle Metal Processing have three monitors with access to the enterprise resources planning system, die performance, and maintenance information. Increasingly supervisors are using the maintenance computer module to go online and access... Read more...

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May 4, 2004

Using Monitoring Systems to Improve Stamping 'Batting Average' Unlike baseball players who can continue to make millions of dollars if they can maintain a .300 batting average (only 30 percent effectiveness) and weather forecasters who are considered good if they are right only half of the time, stamping plants must continuously increase their... Read more...

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