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The formula for successful punching: Analyzing four main factors, optimizing the result

While the first step in successful punching is to pay close attention to the quality and features of punching tooling, other factors come into play. Punched slugs are clues, and examining them can reveal whether the punch and die clearance is too loose or too tight and whether the machine is properly aligned.

Publish date: August 8, 2006

Tech cell: Punching


Getting creative with punch tooling

Keeping a lean program running takes time, effort, and teamwork. To make the most of lean—that is, to understand all of their options in eliminating waste—companies that do extensive work in punching should keep up with innovation in punching tooling. Two such innovations are tools that tap holes and tools that make tabs for sturdy locking joints.

Publish date: April 15, 2008

Tech cell: Punching


Better tool management, better punching: McQuay streamlines its turret press operation with efficient tool use, regrinding

McQuay international develops a strategy to prolong tool life for turret presses.

Publish date: April 15, 2008

Tech cell: Punching


Knockout punch: Hand-in-glove fit between application and process has Sanmina-SCI punching out profits

The system Sanmina-SCI uses to produce rails for Sun Microsystems' large servers is a key factor in Sanmina-SCI's competitiveness when it comes to processing a large, heavy-gauge, complet part, delivered in large volume on an as-needed basis for computer server systems and other similar applications.

Publish date: November 8, 2005

Tech cell: Press Technology


Driven to integrate: Automotive component stamper branches out, adapts to industry changes

Changes come often in the steel industry--a business that sticks around long enough might eventually bear little resemblance to the version established at its inception. This is the case for Parkview Metal Products, Lake Zurich, Ill. The company opened in 1950 as a tool and die shop in Chicago, later moving and shifting its focus to automotive, electronic, and grill components. The company believes its culture is changing for the better and plans to continue developing its 5S initiatives, increasing its on-time delivery, and reducing its scrap rate.

Publish date: May 13, 2008

Tech cell: Press Technology


Automation helps ovenmaker cook up profits: Wood Stone Corp., Bellingham, Wash., learns valuable lessons as a result

What kind of a difference did an automated fabricating system make for Wood Stone Corp., Bellingham, Wash.? Before the system, the company actually had more people in the shop, and they were working 10 hour days for about 4-6 months to make fewer products than are produced today.

Publish date: September 30, 2008

Tech cell: Automation and Robotics