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More from Kate Bachman
- From The Fabricator
Growing solar market rife with stamping opportunities
- By Kate Bachman
- May 24, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Article
The solar energy market offers sunny opportunities for stamping manufacturers, despite dissipated support from the new administration. Corporate demand, rather than state mandates, has become the top driving force behind solar and wind energy growth in the U.S., reported Moody’s Investors...
- From The Fabricator
How custom scrap handling eased 3 stampers out of a pinch
- By Kate Bachman
- May 23, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Article
No two stamping manufacturers are alike. Each has unique challenges, materials, customers, industry segments served, and personnel. An engineered scrap handling system that addresses the unique needs of each stamping manufacturer is likely to reap the most benefits and optimize operations. Three stamping manufacturers faced unique scrap handling dilemmas. Engineered systems targeted their specific challenges and cleared the way for improved operations and better ROIs.
- From The Fabricator
Presses help form new future, fortune, for tool- and diemaker
- By Kate Bachman
- May 22, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Article
(Video-enhanced) When Jeff Brown, president of tool- and diemaker Miro, sized up the state of the industry in 2001 and then again in 2008, he made a pivotal decision: buy big presses and move into stamping production, but retain the company’s tool- and diemaking DNA. The decision turned out to be a sound one.
- From The Fabricator
Ensuring quality bent parts—from sheet to ship
- By Kate Bachman
- Feb 24, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Weaver Fabrication & Finishing gauges its bent parts' quality before they're even formed--from ensuring that its material is to spec to measuring that the dimensions, thickness, stiffness, and edge quality of the parts it bends on its new press brake machine are to its customers' specs. Here is how the manufacturer does it.
- From The Fabricator
Safe-to-sewer solutions simplify disposal
- By Kate Bachman
- Feb 23, 2017
- Materials Handling
- Article
The type of cleaning solutions and lubricants a stamping manufacturer uses during and after forming determines whether it must dispose of them as hazardous waste, which requires transporting them to an off-site haz waste facility or simply discharge them to on-site sewering systems. Here is what to look for in ecofriendly metalworking fluids.
- From The Fabricator
Auto stamper gets two coil feed lines for the size of one
- By Kate Bachman
- Feb 23, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Article
The Adient Co., automotive seating, stamping, and assembly plant in Athens, TN was struggling with material damage and accuracy feeding thin material handling on its current compact feed system. It resolved the problems by installing two compact Dallas LoopSelect SpaceSaver™ dual loop/feed systems that allow it to run very thin materials in the front loop, and then switch to a back loop for thick materials.
- From The Fabricator
Colorado stamping manufacturer’s solar array sees 5-year ROI
- By Kate Bachman
- Dec 15, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Colorado stamping manufacturer Qualtek Manufacturing installed a solar array on its warehouse and office with a wind power purchase agreement, and replaced inefficient heat treatment furnaces.
- From The Fabricator
57-year veteran tool- and diemaker “started somewhere”
- By Kate Bachman
- Nov 18, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Of all of the roles 57-year veteran tool- and diemaker Paul Rettberg has had, the one he has enjoyed the most is the one he fills currently … as a teacher.
- From The Fabricator
Xtreme MRO keeps heavyweight stamper on track (video enhanced)
- By Kate Bachman
- Nov 18, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
If an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure, what is it worth when you’re stamping thousands of tons? To Rockford Toolcraft, it’s priceless. The $100 million annual sales stamping manufacturer specializes in stamping heavy-gauge material up to ¾ inch thick. Its maintenance, repair, overhaul program must be topnotch to keep operations moving. The millwrights and electricians who maintain, repair, and overhaul the 60 massive, high-tonnage mechanical presses are highly skilled, very experienced, and ready at a moment’s notice to get the presses back on track ASAP. Here’s how the company keeps its fleet of presses humming.
- From The Fabricator
Servo press trends
- By Kate Bachman
- Sep 21, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Vehicular weight reductions that automakers have made largely have been attributed to the use of advanced high-strength (AHS) materials—and the stamping manufacturers forming them. Stampers have muscled the Olympian feat via many approaches, including using servo-driven mechanical presses. Servo presses have evolved and moved from the fringe into the mainstream. Four servo press manufacturers weigh in on how servo press technology has advanced to spot stampers in helping them meet the challenges inherent in forming superstrong metals with low formability and high work hardening.
- From The Fabricator
High-tech stamping in Amish country
- By Kate Bachman
- Sep 21, 2016
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
The SUPERB™ factory in Sugarcreek, Ohio performs surprisingly high-tech operations in a traditional village in Amish country, including stamping components for next-generation power grid storage units for Alevo. To meet the demand to stamp and assemble 100 million battery components, the manufacturer installed automated assembly equipment.
- From The Fabricator
Stamper powers up to do the heavy lifting
- By Kate Bachman
- Jul 12, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Stamping manufacturer StampSource brought in more than $3 million worth of work—a 25 percent revenue increase—with a capital investment of two heavy-duty feeders and three high-tonnage presses. It was the largest expansion in the company’s 66-year history.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturer uses servo press to hasten safety part production safely
- By Kate Bachman
- May 25, 2016
- Metals/Materials
- Article
Ultraform Industries sought ways to increase output of the safety seat belt and air bag assemblies the company manufactures, but speed could not come at the expense of quality. The company installed a servo press to slow the stroke before the draw, perform restrikes.
- From The Fabricator
Lockset manufacturer gets handle on scrap to boost productivity
- By Kate Bachman
- May 25, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
When you stamp 2.2 million pieces a day in the manufacture of lockset and doorset assemblies— 550 million stampings a year—smooth, speedy operation is your goal and bottlenecks and obstructions to productivity are your targets. Kwikset developed a unique way to handle scrap that removed a bottleneck and increased output.
- From The Fabricator
What’s sizzling in hot stamping?
- By Kate Bachman
- Mar 28, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
This multisource article touches hot stamping's growth and new technologies and approaches to its further development, including pressure controlled hardening, hot forming of aluminum and magnesium, the option of using a servo-mechanical press that has been modified for hot forming as well as a hydraulic press, and secondary processing performed in-die to avoid having to use a laser cutting machine for trimming.
- Podcasting
- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 05/07/2024
- Running Time:
- 67:38
Patrick Brunken, VP of Addison Machine Engineering, joins The Fabricator Podcast to talk about the tube and pipe...
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