Recent Trends in Manufacturing and Materials Towards Industry 4.0
Recent Trends in Manufacturing and Materials Towards Industry 4.0

Author: Muhammed Nafis Osman Zahid

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-22

Total Pages: 1025

ISBN-13: 9811595054

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This book presents part of the proceedings of the Manufacturing and Materials track of the iM3F 2020 conference held in Malaysia. This collection of articles deliberates on the key challenges and trends related to manufacturing as well as materials engineering and technology in setting the stage for the world in embracing the fourth industrial revolution. It presents recent findings with regards to manufacturing and materials that are pertinent towards the realizations and ultimately the embodiment of Industry 4.0, with contributions from both industry and academia.

Die Tooling Preventive Maintenance for the Sheet Metal Stamping Industry
Die Tooling Preventive Maintenance for the Sheet Metal Stamping Industry

Author: Thomas J. Ulrich

Publisher:

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781462083268

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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.