At Ohio-based Bula Forge & Machine, Inc., the focus is on full service, versatility, and commitment to employees and community. The company has made a niche for itself supplying its military and industrial customers with quality components through its menu of forging and other value-added services.
When it comes to aerospace applications, most start thinking of aluminum and its alloys. Steel continues to be used in aerospace applications, however, sometimes as a component and always as die material. Either way, proper thermal treatment is critical to performance in service. Titanium processing is also examined.
For a number of reasons, the heralded Toyota Production System – designed for a low-variety, high-volume shop – does not work equally well for a high-variety, low-volume operation, i.e. a job shop. Implementing a JobshopLean program in a smaller shop can improve performance significantly.
This second of two parts on die failure analysis deals with actual case studies of real applications. In each case, dies failed and had to be modified or redesigned. These cases provide the rudimentary analysis of each failure and how it was corrected.
