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MetalForming
October 2016 | Volume 50 — Number 10 Cover Story
Features
90 Much More Than Tool
and Die–One Company’s
Evolution
Tooling now is just the tip of the iceberg for Reich Tool & Design. Since its founding in 1965, the Wisconsin company has successfully added precision contract machining and, most recently, cleanroom assembly to its roster of capabilities.
Commentaries
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Don’t Only Send Managers to FABTECH; Send Your Top Production Workers, Too Brad F. Kuvin
The Science of Forming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
24 FABTECH 2016 Sharpen Your Edge
...by attending North America’s largest metalforming, fabricating, welding and finishing event: FABTECH 2016. Slated for November 16-18 in Las Vegas, the expo offers unprecedented opportunities to gain insights from visionaries and peers throughout the industry
28 PMA Presents Metalforming-Education Program During FABTECH
34 Exhibitors in the
METALFORM Technology Area
42 Previews
Features
74 The Onus is on Die Designers
...to support the desire of metalformers to do more work—and more complex work—in the die, and avoid costly secondary operations. Design and simulation software increasingly is the tool that die shops use to meet the needs of their stamper customers; here’s one shining example.
78 Extreme Welding
A Minnesota maker of aftermarket parts for snowmobiles cut production time by more than 50 percent by switching to wave-pulse gas-metal-arc welding.
82 Meet Chromate and
Offgassing Challenges
When Coating Parts
A plating expert shows how metalformers can help ensure proper part coating and why open lines of communication between metalformers, platers and coaters are musts.
86 Wanted: Skilled Labor
As an industry we have done a horrendous job of promoting careers in manufacturing.
We have allowed people to hold a negative perception of these careers, rather than dispelling myths by sharing the truth.
It’s time to turn the tide.
Some Forming Problems Have No Solutions
Stuart Keeler
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Advances in Metal-Stamping Technology
Peter Ulintz
Departments
96
News Fronts
Tech Update
Software for Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . Additive Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spotlight on PMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Ad Index
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