Exploring the: Know How - Tooling Zone
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- Maintenance Training? Show Me the Money
- Training works best if a goals are set and a plan is established to meet them.
Columns Published: 12/28/2012
- The Cost of Doing Nothing
- Most people usually associate costs with doing something.
Columns Published: 10/26/2012
- Maintenance Terms of Endearment
- Look closely at your company’s mold maintenance language and formalize your approach to create a clear and concise picture—one that can be measured.
Columns Published: 7/30/2012
- The Value of 20 Bits of Data
- With these 20 bits of data, toolrooms can drastically lower the cost of keeping molds running and improve mold reliability and tooling life while reducing breakdowns and molding better parts.
Columns Published: 3/26/2012
- Safety Sense in the Shop
- Running a clean, organized, professional, and safe shop requires a team effort that includes an awareness of unsafe practices and equipment that need to be eliminated, replaced, or improved, along with the accountability of all to identify and docum...
Columns Published: 1/28/2012
- Tool Room Management: How To Lead Your Team
- Real progress in a mold shop won’t be made without a qualified and motivated “driver at the wheel” who diligently searches for, and implements, continuous-improvement solutions.
Columns Published: 8/23/2011
- The Tools of Tool Maintenance
- The root cause of many mold and part issues are ultimately determined by the ability to measure something within one or two tenths of a mil. Readings with precision measuring tools can determine whether a tooling component is to be reused, reworked,...
Columns Published: 6/27/2011
- How To Size & Calibrate Profile Parts
- Doing it right is critical to maintaining profile dimensions.
Columns Published: 5/31/2011
- Know the Three F’s Of Profile Tooling Design
- Designing an extrusion profile and ultimately the die design and sizing equipment cannot be executed successfully without a full understanding of the customer’s quality expectations or specifications.
Columns Published: 3/26/2011
- Create a Maintenance Work (Bench) Cell
- Get better results by improving the organization of your mold-maintenance operation.
Columns Published: 3/1/2011
