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Preventative maintenance as a way of life: Die shop sparks plantwide process control renaissance

By: Tom Ulrich, Contributing Writer

The author relates his experience as preventive maintenance (PM) coordinator at a Big 3 automaker. The purpose of preventative maintenance is to gain control of the processes. This begins with data collection on die sets, die failure and material handling damage that will identify weak areas in the stamping process. The author's team began with one set of dies and eventually its PM program was so successful that it was implemented throughout the entire plant.

Publish date: November 29, 2001

Tech cell: Tool and Die