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Features

Engineering Simulations Vital for SMEs to Unlock Industry 4.0

Kristine Tarvida
Traditional ways of work simply aren't sustainable and effective because the still-ongoing technological revolution is reshaping all products and services that have been made before, creating new products/services, concepts and work …
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Forging Quality Control

Park Ohio's Roots Go Back 100 Years

Michael Evans
In May 1920, a long century ago in the shadows of Cleveland’s steel mills, two brilliant and visionary engineers founded The Ohio Crankshaft Company. …
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Simulation/Information Technology

OEM or Rebuilder: A Key Choice When Repairing/Rebuilding Forging Equipment

In an era where equipment is routinely rendered obsolete at an ever-increasing pace, forging equipment stands alone as machines built to work on a daily basis for decades – if …
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Heating

Make Your Own Bush Knife (part 1)

Bradley Richardson
The knife is one of humankind’s first tools. The first knives were made about 2.5 million years ago by battering sharp flakes from stone, oftentimes used with a wooden or …
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Dies & Die Materials

Increase Die Life with Lubes and Coatings

Srikar P. Shenoy S.P. Shenoy
Protective coatings continue to play a major role in increasing productivity and reducing costs in hot forging and heat treatment. This paper presents details and successful case studies of three …
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Quenching & Cooling

Optimized Cooling Rates of Microalloyed Steels (Part II)

The first part of this article ran in the December 2019 issue. It gave an overview of a challenge facing forgers of microalloyed steels – controlled cooling! …
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How Hatebur Solved a Shearing Production Problem

For decades, automotive component makers have relied on hot forging presses and shearing systems to transform metal bars into high-quality parts such as drive shafts, gear wheels and bearing rings, …

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