Tooling Solutions for Bending Short Flanges and Bending Without Marking
Using press brake tooling specifically designed to bend short flanges expands the achievable design envelope for sheet metal parts enabling the fabricator to do more for the customer. Tooling designed with rotating supports mimics a folding operation and thus has different flange length requirements to produce quality bends. This bending procedure or technique is gentle on polished materials, leaving them clean of marks. It can be used to bend across holes or bend to a diagonal sharp and is effective when bending uneven materials like tread plate. Attend this session to learn more about these tooling solutions.
Larry Boden - Mate Precision Tooling
Using Less to Do More: Optimizing Your Press Brake Tooling Mix for Maximum Productivity
This session provides fabricators with information that will help them use less, more accurate, more flexible, and more durable press brake tooling to produce a wide range of parts in a wide range of materials and obtain optimum/near optimum results, emphasizing the need to get maximum value and productivity from their press brake tooling mix to reduce overall costs and set-up time. It will introduce new concepts designed to minimize/eliminate die changes when bending materials in the range of 20 ga. to .250" thick mild steel. Tools to measure the payback time on investment and the long term cost savings will be provided.
David Bishop - Wila USA
