Fundamentals Of Press Tool Design

This books covers the skills required for working in tool design as it applies to manufacturing industries via a number of instructional problems. The major criteria for each of these designs must be function, practicality, and cost. Each tool design, no matter how well thought out or developed must be able to satisfy the required operation such as the intended function, able to produce the desired parts and within the cost expectations. Topics covered in this book include, tool design for the metal removal processes; tool design for pressworking; tool design for inspection; tool design for the joining processes; tooling materials; supporting materials and new developments.

This book attempts to bridge the gap between academic theory and contemporary industrial practice in press tools and requistic equipment. The treatise provides guidelines for selection presses, and describes manufacturing methods for press tools. It enumerates common design errors, and includes case studies highlighting pitfalls in press work. Serves supplementary reading for post diploma courses in tool engineering.

The creation of a Fifth Edition is proof of the continuing vitality of the book's contents, including: tool design and materials; jigs and fixtures; workholding principles; die manipulation; inspection, gaging, and tolerances; computer hardware and software and their applications; joining processes, and pressworking tool design. To stay abreast of the newer developments in design and manufacturing, every effort has been made to include those technologies that are currently finding applications in tool engineering. For example, sections on rapid prototyping, hydroforming, and simulation have been added or enhanced. The basic principles and methods discussed in Fundamentals of Tool Design can be used by both students and professionals for designing efficient tools.

This uniquely organized text gives both students and working professionals graphically detailed assistance in understanding the underlying principles of die design, illustrating how these basic engineering principles are easily adapted to a limitless variety of die designs. It divides the design of each die into a series of easy-to-follow steps and illustrates each step in pictorial view and as a portion of an engineering drawing. Materials, punches, die sets, stops, strippers, gages, pilots and presses are covered.

Fundamentals of Press Brake Tooling provides insights into properly designing parts that can be formed using a press brake, and it will give the reader a basic understanding of what must be considered in selecting proper tooling, determining minimum machine requirements, using blank size calculations, and arriving at an acceptable bend sequence. Also included is a great deal of diverse information that will save time and money, and allow parts to be produced to a quality acceptable to the final user.

Fifteen chapters explain and illustrate press types, die operations, die setting principles and techniques, press inspection, maintenance, safety, and press lubricants. Examples of the press data detailed include: controls, drives, clutches, slides, cost and operational comparisons of press types, brakes feeders, installation and leveling, chutes and conveyors, bolsters, press selection criteria, analyzing press failure causes, die locating methods, clamping, load cell testing, reducing deflection, press accessories, programmable force controls, and much more.

The principal method of learning either design skills or machine operator skills of roll form tooling and its design has been on-the-job training. As the only book of its kind available on the subject, this insightful and handy reference acts as a supplement to on-the-job-training by presenting the fundamentals of roll tool design through theory and illustrative examples which include detail of the design calculations. Additionally, it identifies design decisions that are judgment calls and have no correct answers in design examples that depict certain ideas and conceptshelping users develop a feel for the process. It is sure to be useful as a teaching aid for setup personnel and roll form machine operators, as well as a basic reference for tool design personnel.