Sheet Metal Stamping Simulation

The National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) and the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) today called on the U.S. Senate to act immediately on the need to pass the Small Business Lending Fund Act, a bill that would help small and medium sized manufacturers access credit needed to help finance their day-to-day operations, invest in expansion of domestic operations and ensure that a disruption in the critical supply chain does not occur.

Kathleen Matthews, tooling manager with Pano Cap Canada Ltd., Kitchener, ON, attended her first Joint Open House earlier this year May 5 and 6, and she’s glad she did.

Not only did she find the machines she was looking for, she was the winner of a draw for a 42 in. Samsung flat screen tv. Matthews qualified for the draw because she attended all five open house locations—DMG Canada, Mississauga; Elliott Matsuura Canada, Oakville, ON; EMEC Machine Tools, Ferro Technique and SST-Canada, all based in Mississauga, ON. 

Some tool and die manufacturers are asking the city to give them tax breaks as they seek to retool their operations.At least one company, and possibly as many as three, could file requests over the next couple of months to be included in tool and die renaissance recovery zones, as city officials consider a policy dealing with them.

Taiwan exported US$1.029 billion of machine tools in the first five months, up 45% year-on-year from US$710 million, according to customs-cleared statistics compiled by the Taiwan Machine Tool Foundation (TMTF). 

B&H Tool of Richmond has received a $2.3 million low-interest loan from the federal government that will keep the metal stamping business in operation and its more than 80 local workers employed.

The firm, which stamps metal parts for the automotive industry, also employs more than 30 in Rockcastle County. Its weekly payroll in Madison County is $50,000, with the Rockcastle payroll totaling $20,000 a week, said its president, Sammy Hammons.

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Marini Tool and Die Co. said Tuesday it is proceeding with an expansion to its Racine plant at 5100 21st St.

The 10,000-square-foot expansion will be used for additional manufacturing and warehouse space, while adding another truck dock for shipping and receiving. The structure was designed for future expansion to the west.

Chrysler Canada is spending $27.2 million on new technology for its auto parts casting plant in Toronto, preserving the factory’s 280 jobs.

The plant in Etobicoke, which currently produces aluminum die castings and pistons, is being prepared to make vehicle suspension parts called crossmembers starting in the third quarter of 2011, Chrysler said Thursday.

Rockford Toolcraft has avoided laying off any of its over 260 workers and has added 15 workers and hours of overtime since January.

Without tool and dye makers and metal stamping there would be no cars, no airplanes you would still be riding a horse."

You might ask why a successful company like Rockford Toolcraft would want to change the way its does things

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is looking to Ford Motor Company to help the state's unemployment rate. More than 10 percent of Illinoisans were unemployed last month. Ford has announced it will create 1,200 new jobs by manufacturing its Explorer SUV at a South Side Chicago assembly plant. Governor Quinn says the production will have a big economic impact on the state.

In the current edition, there is an excellent article written by Art Hendrick. It's a good insight in to how in fact, Simulation is indeed always perfect, but the material properties that clients provide/enter are not always accurate - and that is where the problems can start. Here is what Art says:

The simulation is perfect: Based on the data entered in to the computer and the mathematical data that the computer is using, the results will be accurate. COmputers don't make mistakes.

The problem is insufficient data. Very simply, the computer is not perfectly replicating what might actually be happening in the die and press.

Tesla Motors will produce electric Rav4 crossover SUVs for Toyota Motor Co. beginning in 2012, the two companies announced Friday.

Toyota (TM) announced in May that it planned to invest $50 million in Tesla Motors (TSLA) upon the completion of the electric car maker's initial public offering, which took place on June 29.

The Government is providing a £360 million loan guarantee for Ford´s £450 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). Ford is investing £1.5 billion over the next five years for the development of a new generation of environmentally friendly engines and vehicle technologies.

BANGKOK, June 24 (Bernama) -- Ford Motor Company is investing US$450 million for its passenger vehicle manufacturing plant in Rayong with initial production of 150,000 cars annually beginning 2012.

Ford's president and chief executive officer Alan Mulally said the facility would build the next-generation Ford Focus with 85 per cent of the total production for export market in the Asia-Pacific region and the balance for local market.

IT has been said that one of the ways the UK can drive itself out of its economic woes is through making innovative new products which the rest of the world wants.

And yesterday, a prime example drove off the production line at Toyota's Burnaston factory.

Through a haze of dry ice and camera flashes, the first hybrid Auris, or the Auris Hybrid Synergy Drive to give it its official title, glided into view before an assembled audience of around 300 people.