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Stamping Simplified Via Controls
Omni Manufacturing designs, builds and operates complicated machinery to ensure productivity in its part-making operations. But stamping need not be so complicated, thanks to new controls on the company’s 300- and 1500-ton mechanical presses.
BY LOUIS A. KREN, SENIOR EDITOR
Opening its doors in 1983 as a provider of stamp- ing tools, Omni Manu- facturing, within two years, found itself in the stamping business as it began providing stamped parts in partnership with its customers. Starting off supplying parts for the appli- ance, hardware and construc- tion industries, the St. Mary’s, OH, company then took on automotive-part production and also became a major sup- plier for a name-brand manu- facturer of garage-door openers.
Today, Omni Manufacturing,
with 200,000 sq. ft. of manu-
facturing space on 25 acres and
125 employees, boasts inhouse
expertise not only in tool build and stamping, but in welding, powder coating and nylon coating applications.
Forty-two active stamping presses in capacities from 50 to 1500 tons churn out parts from hand-transfer, transfer and progressive dies at Omni Manufacturing. Stainless, high-strength low-alloy, and advanced high-strength steels along with aluminum, in thicknesses from 0.012 to 0.5 in., comprise the stamped-material mix. The material is destined primarily for automotive parts ranging from small brackets
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The new control package on this 1500-ton mechanical press at Omni Manufacturing in St. Mary’s, OH, features remote-I/O junction boxes that save greatly on machine wiring. The coil-fed press stamps aluminum engine lid covers.
to large panels, as well as heat shields, muffler baffles and suspension components.
Controls Complement Inhouse Ingenuity
The company constantly searches for ways to boost pro- ductivity, often employing its inhouse engineering expertise to design and build its own transfer systems and incorpo- rating a variety of new and used equipment such as refur-
