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Serving those who create precision metal products using stamping, fabricating and other value-added processes.
Cover Story
20 Welcome Back to the Windy City
Tens of thousands of metalforming, fabricating and welding professionals will meet at Chicago’s McCormick Place to take in the first ever FABTECH International and AWS Welding Show, including METALFORM.
22 Exhibitors’ List
24 Conference Schedule 30 Product Previews
Features
47 Packaging at the Press—a Before and After Success Story A four-lane conveyor helps to sort parts and automate end-of-line packaging operations, increasing press uptime, reducing sorting costs and eliminating customer annoyance.
48 Automation Keeps Fab Shop Humming After Hours The sound of presses pounding, lasers cutting and welding arcs humming is the sound of money. Even more so if some of the machinery runs when no one is around to hear it.
Tooling Technology
58 Paperless Die Design and Development
Ford’s Dearborn Tool & Die plant goes lean and mean, upping production while reducing die-build time, by moving full-force into software-based tools for die development, die build and machine-shop scheduling.
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Commentaries
Editorial ........................5
It’s Show Time
Brad F. Kuvin
TheScienceofForming ............56
More Understanding About Work Hardening
Stuart Keeler
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Pressing Questions?
Peter Ulintz
Metalforming Electronics. . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Exploring Low-Cost Die Protection at the 2009 METALFORM Exhibition
George Keremedjiev
TheBusinessofMetalforming ........68
Sales Excellence: Recruit and Empower Sales Reps Michael Bleau
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Daily News for the Industry
BlackmanonTaxes................70
Estate Planning Is a Two-Edged Sword: How to Make It and How to Keep It Irving L. Blackman
YouandTheLaw .................72
EEO Halloween of Costumes, Goblins and Ghosts
Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Departments
NewsFronts......................6 TechUpdate ....................12 Materials & Coatings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Tooling Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Spotlight.......................64 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Ad Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 ReaderAction ...................80
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ABOUT THE COVER: Metalforming, fabricating and welding professionals will meet at Chicago’s McCormick Place, November 15-18, to take in the FABTECH Internation- al and AWS Welding Show, including METALFORM. Start plan- ning your show activities now by previewing the show’s con- ference schedule (pg. 24) and show-floor exhibits (pg. 30).
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