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Tool & Die Authority - October 2009
The Tool and Die Authority October 2009 Newsletter contained these articles:
Who’s Moving Along with the Winds of Change?: Joe Brown
Die-Setting Practice : Peter Ulintz
Transfer Systems—What Can They Do for You?: Bob Quinn
Detecting Feed in Thick Materials : Drew Stevens
and from Danny Schaeffler of Engineering Quality Solutions (EQS)...
Steel Mills are Heating Up (or, the Law of Unintended Consequences)
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Who’s Moving Along with the Winds of Change?: Joe Brown
Die-Setting Practice : Peter Ulintz
Transfer Systems—What Can They Do for You?: Bob Quinn
Detecting Feed in Thick Materials : Drew Stevens
and from Danny Schaeffler of Engineering Quality Solutions (EQS)...
Steel Mills are Heating Up (or, the Law of Unintended Consequences)
Last summer, the capacity-utilization rate for North American steelmakers was just about 90 percent. This meant that 90 percent of the sum total of all of the steelmaking capacity we have in North America was making steel. Then, as the economy tanked late last year, furnaces were shut off and allowed to go cold. Rather than flood the market with what would have been inexpensive steel, the capacity-utilization rate dropped to 32 percent at U.S. Steel; industry-wide, it fell to near 40 percent.
Recently, there’s been news of numerous furnaces coming back on line, due in part to the Cash-for-Clunkers program, as well as to the need for inventory restocking at the nation’s service centers. During the second week of September 2009, the steelmaking capacity-utilization rate in North America climbed to just short of 60 percent. What effect will this have on the price of steel? ...
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Labels: capacity utilization rate, steel mills
Comment:
Over the past 20 to 30 years the stamping industry has made gigantic steps moving from a purely experienced based industry to an "esperience-science" base. We still design both parts and dies (for formability issues) by experience, but we check the performance of the design scientificly with computer simualtions. The nest step will be to incorporate the physics and math of formability into the design process as the design evolves and move into a truely "Engineering" culture. Fortunately the technilogical breakthroughs have been made. It is now just a matter of learning how to do it and doing it.
Posted by
Ed Herman |
November 30, 2009 10:32 AM