Tool and Die Tech Cell

Welcome to the Tool and Die Tech Cell. Here you will find information on stamping press tooling, quick die change, die handling equipment, and quick die change practices. You also will find information on plate bending rolls, press brake tooling, punch press tooling, roll forming tooling, tube and pipe mill tooling, tube bender tooling, and unitized tooling.

Don’t overlook the heat-treat for tool steels

Proper heat treatment is essential to optimize tool steel properties. This entails not only selecting the appropriate time and temperature parameters for the grade involved, but also equipment fully capable of doing the job at hand. Toolmakers should talk with their heat treat facilities to ensure that when it comes to heat treating requirements, everyone is on the same page.

Stampers' unique perspectives result in innovative designs

Stamping companies are striving to stay relevant to their customers with intelligent manufacturing approaches that other fabricators can't match. Here are two companies that have followed that path successfully.

5 pitfalls to avoid when implementing SMED

Single-minute exchange of dies is a lean manufacturing concept that has grown beyond the world of metal forming. It now stands for any lean exercise that attempts to reduce changeover time to single-digit minutes. In implementing such a program, manufacturing managers need to understand the common pitfalls that plague these efforts.

Attempting to defy the laws of physics, Part II

It is almost unrealistic to expect some stamped part part features, such as hole position and flatness, to remain within a small tolerancing zone.

Attempting to defy the laws of physics, Part I

The forms and positional tolerances called out on product designs often defy the physical abilities of the product's material. Proper product and process design, as well as pressure clamping, can help maintain strict tolerances.

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Stamping die design software add-on released

Logopress Corp. and its North American distributor, Accurate Die Design Inc., have released a Progressive Blank Companion add-on to the SolidWorks®-based Logopress3 software. The add-on allows metal stamping die designers to model the 3-D, complex-shaped, intermediate stages of a...

Stamping die design software add-on released

Logopress Corp. and its North American distributor, Accurate Die Design Inc., have released a Progressive Blank Companion add-on to the SolidWorks®-based Logopress3 software. The add-on allows metal stamping die designers to model the 3-D, complex-shaped, intermediate stages of a...

Die-roll reduction technology introduced

EBway Corp. has designed a compound stamping die to reduce the amount of die roll on pierced holes. Die roll is the slightly curved contour on the edge of one side of a blanked part, created by the amount of pull-down on the part material before the actual cutting of the material starts....

High-precision punch, die grinder comes completely fixtured

Mate Precision Tooling has introduced the ValuGrind™ high-precision grinder for punch and die maintenance. Available for either thick-turret or TRUMPF®-style tooling, the grinder comes completely fixtured. Features include a 6.5-in.-dia. diamond grinding wheel; an inner wheel cooling...

Slitting tooling system expanded

Mate Precision Tooling offers an expanded LongLife™ slitting tool system. The system, which combines premium tool steel punch and die inserts with punch and die holders, now includes inserts in lengths from Size 56, 0.787 to 2.205 in., and Size 76, 2.206 to 3.000 in. Widths are available up to...

With fixture enhancements, grinder sharpens punches, dies up to 8 in.

DCM Tech Inc. offers the model PDG punch and die grinder for sharpening turret press tooling, progressive dies, and small die sets. Standard center-mounted rotary fixturing holds punches and dies up to 6.25 in. in diameter with fixture enhancements available to sharpen dies up to 8 in. The...