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Titles: Stamping & Dies Tech Group Technical Session (8-15-12) (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Eric Kam, Product Manager, AutoForm Engineering GmbH
Synopsis: SME members and advisors discussed stamping and dies technology and the activities of the Stamping & Dies Tech Group. A brief panel discussion follows to explore the potential for expanding to other issues or examine other topics for future technical discussions. |
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Titles: Stamping & Dies Tech Group Technical Session (7-11-12) (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Eric Kam, Product Manager, AutoForm Engineering GmbH
Synopsis: SME members and advisors discussed stamping and dies technology and the activities of the Stamping & Dies Tech Group. A brief panel discussion follows to explore the potential for expanding to other issues or examine other topics for future technical discussions. |
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Title: Deep Cryogenic Treatment of Metals, an Emerging Technology (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Frederick J. "Rick" Diekman, President and Founder, Controlled Thermal Processing Inc.; Rozalia Papp, Business Development Specialist / Heat Treatment, Air Liquide; and Susil Putatunda, PhD, Wayne State University
Synopsis: In this webinar, learn how deep cryogenic treating (processing of metals below ‒244°F) is making serious in roads into both consumer and industrial markets. Some of its applications defy the conventional logic that the only effect it has is to convert retained austenite to martensite. A striking application that illustrates this is the treatment of automotive brakes. Common brake rotors are pearlitic cast iron, without any austenite. Some results of the influence of cryogenic treatment on the mechanical properties, including wear resistance, hardness and fracture toughness of gray cast iron will be shown. In a similar manner, carbide cutting tools, mechanical gears and electronics, all show interesting effects that are not supported by the conventional theories as to why the process works. This webinar also summarizes some of the recent research done worldwide.
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Title: Stamping and Dies Tech Group Technical Session (1-11-12) (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Eric Kam, Product Manager, AutoForm Engineering GmbH
Synopsis: This webinar encompassed the various activities of the Stamping & Dies Tech Group, including technical discussions on stamping and dies basics; defining stamping versus forming; defining dies; identifying role of presses in stamping; types of presses and dies; identifying progressive, transfer and tandem operations; and discussion of other die-based forming methods. In addition, the upcoming themes and tech group projects for 2012 and beyond were reviewed, and an open discussion was held.
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Title: Trim Line Development in the 21st Century (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Mark Hineline, Applications Engineer, Autoform Engineering USA Inc.
Synopsis: In this webinar, traditional trim-line prediction, in-press development and finalization, trim-line development and validation using simulation software were discussed. Also explored were the benefits of trim line development: (1) recognizing limitations of conventional trim development and (2) identifying the potential gains and risks in applying software-based trim development. |
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Title: Safety 101 – Top 10 Safety Violations (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Dean Phillips, Sales Engineer, LINK Systems Safety and Automation Controls, and Sandra Bennett, Manager of Training and Education, Tennessee Occupational Safety & Health
Synopsis: This webinar covers general safety information, common safety concerns, misapplication of tools, safety formulas, OSHA regulations and safety equipment. Applications including but not exclusive to automotive, aerospace, medical, defense, machining and all safety directors. |
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Title: Impact of Press Maintenance on Stamping Part Quality (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Dean Phillips, Sales Engineer, LINK Systems Safety and Automation Controls
Synopsis: This presentation will how items on a press will impact performance and part quality; how things like slide parallelism, deflection and drive clearances impact tooling; and why this is important in the context of part quality and longevity of tool life. This webinar is not focused only on maintenance but focused on the entire process and preventing pitfalls that impact your part quality, damage presses and reduce OEE. It details how tools like tonnage monitors, die protection and communication networks are vital to monitor and track part quality, OEE and maintenance of tooling and presses. New technology to reduce scrap-programmable dies, new materials and lubrication technology is now available to reduce scrap and tooling wear. |
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Title: Evaluating Tool Design for Transfer Automation (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Corey Chamberlain, Owner, 3-D Solutions
Synopsis: Much attention is given to simulating the formability of a part in the die. However, less attention is given to the design of the tool required to fulfill its role in the production of parts. A well-designed tool must not only work the metal well (formability), it must allow for loading and unloading the formed part from the tool and transfer to the next operation. This webinar discusses two case studies where due diligence in the design step — using 3-D simulation tools — could have eliminated hundreds of hours of lost productivity, and significantly improved the bottom lines of the stampers and their customers. |
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Title: Stamping Springback: Basics (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Eric Kam, Product Manager, AutoForm Engineering GmbH
Synopsis: The increased use of high-strength and lightweight materials, along with budget and quality concerns, make coping with springback a leading issue for stampers and tool and diemakers. This webinar will cover the fundamental definition of stamping springback needed to recognize and address the impact of springback on sheetmetal product and process design. We will present springback through basic principles to build a foundation for deeper understanding of your practical springback issues. Learn what springback is and is not. Identify the role of material, tooling design, stamping process and variation regarding springback.
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Title: Stamping Simulation — Sheet Metal Forming (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Eric Kam, Product Manager, AutoForm Engineering GmbH
Synopsis: SME's Hartford No. 7 chapter and the Forming & Fabricating Community jointly sponsored this webinar, which introduced the role of computer simulation and analysis of sheet metalforming processes. Topics covered included: finite element analysis, sheet metal analysis computational methods within the engineering process chain, required process inputs for various computation methods and examples of results from AutoForm-Incremental analysis. |
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Title: Forming High Strength Steel (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Peter Ulintz, Toolingbydesign.com
Synopsis: Higher-strength steels perform differently during forming than other grades. Find out how and why, and how to prepare tooling to meet these forming challenges. |