Metal Forming & Fabricating
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CABLES, HOSES, AND AUTOMATION
Check out why this builder of automated fabricating and metalworking systems uses reinforced plastic cable carriers to guide and protect the moving cables and hoses in its multi-axis robots and press-transfer lines, its factory-automation equipment and its gantry robots.
SEE THE LIGHT: REINVENTING THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
A Paradigm Shift: Still inspecting the finished part? Think again. New process variation monitoring systems focus on preventing errors ? rather than detecting them after they occur ? by refining and improving the manufacturing process itself.
SEE THE LIGHT: SUPER QUENCHING
Operating Inside A Vacuum: The cooling process is critical to manufacturing powdered metal products because it alters the metallurgical properties of the metal as it hardens. This subcontractor helped a new concept in vacuum furnaces take rapid cooling to a new level of precision ? another example of high tech opportunities available to contract manufacturers.
SEE THE LIGHT: THE EMERGING ROLE OF ALUMINUM IN SOLAR POWER
Another Sustainable Alternative Is Generating More Than Just Energy: The growing use of aluminum support structures in concentrated solar power energy generating facilities offers new business opportunities for contract manufacturers.
SHOWTIME: FABTECH
Over 1,000 exhibitors, 35,000 attendees and live demos of metal forming, fabricating, tube and pipe, stamping, lasers, thermal spray and welding equipment. McCormick Place, Chicago, November 15-18. If you can’t make it, don?t miss our Show-in-Print.
A NEW ROLE FOR MICROALLOYED STEELS
Adding Economic Value: Michael Korchynsky of U.S. Vanadium Corporation shows how replacing cheaper carbon steels with microalloyed high-strength steels allowed automakers to reduce the weight of an auto body at the same or at potentially lower costs, and how those same economic principles apply to other applications.
SHEET METAL: SHAVING A PUNCHED WORKPIECE
Dr. Vukota Boljanovic examines the engineering of the shaving process and how it is used to clean holes in a blanked and punched workpiece.
INNOVATIVE SHOT PEENING SOLUTIONS FOR AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS
Aircraft components often require shot peening to strengthen the material, reduce surface variations and increase expectant life. Kumar Balan of Wheelabrator explores how they helped Skills Inc. develop an effective peening solution for the components they supply to Boeing.
HEAT TREATING ALUMINUM FOR THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
Jim Lucas of Wisconsin Oven looks at a new horizontal solution treat system developed to heat treat aluminum and increase the alloy?s overall tensile strength for demanding aerospace applications.
DOWN TO THE CORE
Jet engines run at increasingly higher temperatures to attain greater fuel efficiencies. They must be cooled with more intricate cooling schemes that require the casting of complex cooling passages. MTC Certech introduces a fused silica ceramic core that is ideal for the airfoil casting of blades and vanes for rotating and static parts in these engines.
AIRCRAFT COMPONENT MAKER ELEVATES TUBE BENDING TO NEW LEVEL
An examination of how Unison all-electric tube bending has helped GKN Aerospace to radically improve the efficiency and speed of tube bending operations at its wing component operation in Filton, UK.
FORMING OF TITANIUM AND TITANIUM ALLOYS
For contract manufacturers competing in the aerospace market, Joseph Beal, Rodney Boyer, and Daniel Sanders of Boeing explain how to reduce the effect of springback variation, improve accuracy, and gain the advantage of increased ductility when hot forming or cold forming then hot sizing titanium and its alloys.
