Learn how metal formers can leverage press-control technology, tooling best practices, state-of-the-art metrology equipment and other techniques to add precision to your operations.

Learn strategies to effectively implement automation—transfer systems, robots and cobots, and more—into your facility.

Learn best practices to integrate sheet-metal fabrication processes–laser cutting, CNC punching, welding and more—into your operations. Industry analysts Tom Alongi and Charles Clevenger, from UHY LLP, will lead an online panel discussion on best practices for metal stampers that want to evolve to include metal fabrication processes, and offer advice on purchasing, operations, costing and other financial matters. And, metal forming-company executives will be on hand to describe how they’ve successfully made this transition, in terms of technology implementation and customer acquisition.

See how shop-floor automation is helping manufacturers like you boost productivity, safely and efficiently. Take these ideas, explored in-depth, back to your operations and see where automation could fit.
As an online attendee, you’ll get an up-close look at robots at work at two metal forming companies performing completely different types of operations. Plant representatives will be on hand to discuss the applications and field your questions. We’ll dig into details on the following:

• An automated lean cell at Clips & Clamps that performs a series of value-added processes, including wire forming, cold heading, coining, piercing, stamping, resistance-spot welding and machine-vision inspection.
• A robot at Sukup Manufacturing that destacks blanks and tends to two stamping presses to produce flooring supports for use in grain-storage operations. The robot loads 20-gauge steel blanks into a 300-ton mechanical press for forming, unloads the formed part (now a tube section) and transfers it to a hydraulic press for bending.