Tech Zones

Shot peening provides considerable increases in part life because the overlapping dimples it creates form a uniform layer of compressive stress at metal surfaces.

This unique supplier partnership between Heil and Harco Metal Products enhances production and quality procedures with a bold approach to lean manufacturing.

How does a small metal stamping company carry out the necessary training as part of its lean implementation without raising costs? Rick Bohan of Chagrin River Consulting provides one Ohio metal stamper with some of the answers.

Finding a handheld angle grinder that can take a daily beating and still deliver over the long haul can be a challenge for today’s metal fabrication shops. Contracting Engineering Consultants, Inc. discovers a potential answer in a new angle grinder from Fein Power Tools, Inc..

Litigation Lunacy: 75 percent of manufacturers faced at least one new lawsuit recently, with 53 percent facing 6 or more new suits. And 25 percent of the manufacturers surveyed reported facing at least one $20 million action.

Trumpf enhanced its TruBend Series 5000 precision press brakes further to improve productivity and efficiency in bending. These enhancements include a new visual setup and positioning aid and the new Mobile Control.

RoboCell is an affordable robotic bending cell from LVD Strippit that is capable of robotized bending as well as stand alone operation.

The CE40MR3 angle roll from Ercolina can bend a wide range of tube, pipe and profiles to a CLR as small as 4X diameter of the work piece.

The Nibbler N500-8 from Trumpf Inc. cuts in all four cutting directions and cuts steel sheets up to 0.197 in thick. Reverse cutting is easy to do with the N500-8.

The 5014 TM Ironworker from Scotchman® Industries has a three-station revolving turret unlike any other Scotchman machine.