Tag: costs
Got Your Die Cost Estimation Wrong Again!? Why Cost Experts Need...
Comparing New Projects to Historical Tool Cost and Scratching Your Head – Avoid These Pitfalls of Cost Estimations and Embrace the Future In this blog...
Stamping Cost Estimation is Like Trying to See the Future
Estimating stamping piece costs is a challenge for nearly everybody in the sheet metal value stream. To bring sheet metal product to market, you...
In the rearview mirror
Earlier this year AutoForm started this blog, “We Think In Sheet Metal”. Our goal: to communicate directly with you—the metal forming and engineering community. ...
High, low, multi-pressure sequence hydroforming? Which process fits?
When a closed section part is designed for manufacture, part shape, material grade, and wall thickness are often driven by the proposed hydroforming technology....
Have you been burned by minimum blank quotes?
Has this happened to you? The sales department wins a job for process engineering, die design, tool build, and stamping production. Upon review of...
Optimal Stamping Process Plans
To face the metal forming challenges of the future we need to employ methods to engineer processes wherein we evaluate decisions across a broader...
Which way to optimum?
Whenever planning sheet metal stamping products and processes, the goal is always to design the “optimum” process. However, the search for the optimum is...
