Sensors clear the way for high-speed stamping/Safely navigating the press autobahn

摘要

When you stamp 100 million automotive parts annually, as does Tennessee Stampings LLC, Portland, Term., you might accept die collisions as just part of the "traffic statistics." Not if you want to achieve high speeds, according to Greg Cornett, plant manager of the Tier 2 supplier of ride control components (struts and shocks). Before the dies ever hit the high-speed presses, they are properly sensored, because no matter how fast a high-speed press can run, crashes and producing defective parts would bring it to a screeching halt.