Die Tooling Preventive Maintenance for the Sheet Metal Stamping Industry: A Comprehensive, Step-by-Step Guide to Control Your Sheet Metal Stamping Process - Couverture souple

Ulrich, Thomas J.

 
9781462083268: Die Tooling Preventive Maintenance for the Sheet Metal Stamping Industry: A Comprehensive, Step-by-Step Guide to Control Your Sheet Metal Stamping Process
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1462083269 ISBN 13 : 9781462083268
Editeur : iUniverse, 2012

Synopsis

Companies continue to struggle to maintain, manage and control sheet metal stamping operations in a manufacturing environment, but proven strategies and procedures can turn things around. Author Thomas Ulrich, who has been in the die construction business since 1964, played a leadership role in developing a successful and comprehensive preventive maintenance process for large body-panel stamping dies at Chrysler Corp. In this step-by-step guidebook, he delivers a technical, methods-centric examination of the challenges of maintaining, managing, and controlling sheet metal stamping operations. You'll learn how outsourcing, downsizing, and slashing costs can hurt firms; how to take internal steps to improve existing manufacturing processes to improve performance, sustainability, and the bottom line; and how to apply specific methods to bring sheet metal operations under control, thus allowing profit centers to flourish. This is a practical and functional guide that any company can use to successfully improve its sheet metal tool and die operations. Written in easy to understand and precise prose, it serves as an indispensable resource for managers, comptrollers, production managers, PM coordinators, engineers, and anyone working on the front lines of a sheet metal stamping operations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Companies continue to struggle to maintain, manage and control sheet metal stamping operations in a manufacturing environment, but proven strategies and procedures can turn things around. Author Thomas Ulrich, who has been in the die construction business since 1964, played a leadership role in developing a successful and comprehensive preventive maintenance process for large body-panel stamping dies at Chrysler Corp. In this step-by-step guidebook, he delivers a technical, methods-centric examination of the challenges of maintaining, managing, and controlling sheet metal stamping operations. You'll learn how outsourcing, downsizing, and slashing costs can hurt firms; how to take internal steps to improve existing manufacturing processes to improve performance, sustainability, and the bottom line; and how to apply specific methods to bring sheet metal operations under control, thus allowing profit centers to flourish. This is a practical and functional guide that any company can use to successfully improve its sheet metal tool and die operations. Written in easy to understand and precise prose, it serves as an indispensable resource for managers, comptrollers, production managers, PM coordinators, engineers, and anyone working on the front lines of a sheet metal stamping operations.

Biographie de l'auteur

Thomas Ulrich has played a leadership role in the development of successful, preventive-maintenance processes for large body-panel-stamping dies. He is the chairperson of the Tooling Preventive/Predictive Maintenance Tech Group of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He owns and operates DiePM.com, a resource for the metal stamping industry. Ulrich currently lives in Michigan.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1462083269
ISBN 13 
9781462083268
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
202
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Personne responsable
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