It provides balanced coverage of relevant fundamentals and real-world practices so that students, apprentices and on-the-job professionals can understand the important and often complex interrelationships between die design and the economic factors involved in manufacturing sheet-metal forming products.
Whether you're involved in a highly specialized operation, or need comprehensive information on many types of die designs, this book is your best bet book on how to design dies. Hundreds of illustrations on proven designs are included, as well as hundreds of tables and equations to help you make quick calculations for allowances, pressures, forces and more.
The Die Maintenance Handbook offers solutions to common tool and die problems. It gives effective maintenance strategies to help the reader avoid costly die repairs by performing required tasks at scheduled times.
Downsizing Lot Sizes (Dozen Eggs)
DRESSING AND ITS EFFECT ON GRINDING PERFORMANCE
Dressing Effects of Multi-Point Diamonds
Dynamics of Grinding with Coated Abrasives
ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATION
ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION OF EQUIPMENT FOR SHORT RUNS
Economics of Metal Stamping