Improving product quality while achieving higher levels of efficiency has become synonymous with success in the nineties. The expanded use of close tolerance blanks in the production of fabricated components is playing an important role. Cut-To-Length/Blanking Lines that can efficiently produce parts consistently within a specific tolerance eliminate the need to reshear the parts to bring them within specification. Immediate benefits are reduced labor and scrap costs, better fitting parts, and fewer problems in down-line secondary processing. While there is a growing demand for "closer and closer" tolerances, there remains a great deal of confusion regarding the definition of a blank: what is the proper way to measure them, what types of Cut-To-Length/Blanking Lines are best suited to produce the most accurate parts, and why? Before you can determine why one type of line is more efficient and produces better tolerance than another, you must first address the issue of what is square and how it is measured.
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