Comments on: Good to See My Faithful Friends http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/05/good-to-see-faithful-friends-and-fans/stephens/ Official Tim Stephens Website Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephens http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/05/good-to-see-faithful-friends-and-fans/stephens/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Stephens Fri, 14 May 2010 12:24:27 +0000 http://www.dieguy.com/?p=763#comment-310 Brad Kuvin reads DieGuy AND has a cool looking Gravatar? Thanks Brad!! That means alot!! This discussion is continued in the next post: http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/11/great-steel-designs-greater-problems/stephens/ I am just about to blog on individual presentations and the negative impact on the die industry coming over the next decade and beyond from what I call Super Steel (extreme high strength steels). I have no issues whatsoever with you using / referencing blog content from DieGuy.com. Hell, I would even blog FOR MetalForming Magazine. Brad Kuvin reads DieGuy AND has a cool looking Gravatar?

Thanks Brad!! That means alot!!

This discussion is continued in the next post: http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/11/great-steel-designs-greater-problems/stephens/

I am just about to blog on individual presentations and the negative impact on the die industry coming over the next decade and beyond from what I call Super Steel (extreme high strength steels).

I have no issues whatsoever with you using / referencing blog content from DieGuy.com. Hell, I would even blog FOR MetalForming Magazine.

]]> By: Brad Kuvin http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/05/good-to-see-faithful-friends-and-fans/stephens/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Brad Kuvin Fri, 14 May 2010 12:09:17 +0000 http://www.dieguy.com/?p=763#comment-309 Gentlemen (and I use the term loosely)--this is an interesting and purposeful discussion that I may move to MetalForming, with your approval. What say you? -brad Gentlemen (and I use the term loosely)–this is an interesting and purposeful discussion that I may move to MetalForming, with your approval. What say you?

-brad

]]> By: Stephens http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/05/good-to-see-faithful-friends-and-fans/stephens/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Stephens Thu, 06 May 2010 10:48:55 +0000 http://www.dieguy.com/?p=763#comment-289 hi Danny, That is a great point you made. The skill and talent level in both the product design community and the die engineering community has been significantly diluted in the past 20 years. We barely have the right competencies now. The next 10 or 20 years will present significant challenges to the automotive industry. hi Danny,

That is a great point you made. The skill and talent level in both the product design community and the die engineering community has been significantly diluted in the past 20 years. We barely have the right competencies now. The next 10 or 20 years will present significant challenges to the automotive industry.

]]> By: Danny Schaeffler http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/05/good-to-see-faithful-friends-and-fans/stephens/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Danny Schaeffler Thu, 06 May 2010 03:38:44 +0000 http://www.dieguy.com/?p=763#comment-285 "The overall message was simple to me: if you want better fuel economy (and I am not so sure the market does at $3 a gallon), then your vehicle development process will take longer, dies will cost more, and you are going to pay more for the long-awaited car or truck as a consequence to reducing mass." This means all you need is time and money to get to the goal. Necessary, yes, but not sufficient. You forgot one of the keys: the product/process needs to be intelligently designed by people who have more than a clue of how to tie everything together. The challenge will become getting the knowledgeable people capable, interested, motivated, and available to do the job. “The overall message was simple to me: if you want better fuel economy (and I am not so sure the market does at $3 a gallon), then your vehicle development process will take longer, dies will cost more, and you are going to pay more for the long-awaited car or truck as a consequence to reducing mass.”
This means all you need is time and money to get to the goal. Necessary, yes, but not sufficient. You forgot one of the keys: the product/process needs to be intelligently designed by people who have more than a clue of how to tie everything together.
The challenge will become getting the knowledgeable people capable, interested, motivated, and available to do the job.

]]> By: stephens http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/05/good-to-see-faithful-friends-and-fans/stephens/comment-page-1/#comment-276 stephens Wed, 05 May 2010 21:35:37 +0000 http://www.dieguy.com/?p=763#comment-276 I think you would have enjoyed it, Eric. Grieshaber kicked ass ... he really stole the show. If you and I presented today, it would have been a great show. And yes, the rest were clueless on the PowerPoint aspect and most read from a script. The ones that did not read from a script, read the slides. One presenter could not answer a single question about his content. I was really disappointed as far as that goes. The overall message was simple to me: if you want better fuel economy (and I am not so sure the market does at $3 a gallon), then your vehicle development process will take longer, dies will cost more, and you are going to pay more for the long-awaited car or truck as a consequence to reducing mass. I mean, to do what they talked about by 2020, the damn dies are going to look like they did 40 years ago with heavy casting construction and fully inserted punch openings, trim lines, and flange breaklines. And forget about three or four dies. Better add one or two more for restrike. I see bad things coming ... more on this rant in a post in a day or two. I think you would have enjoyed it, Eric.

Grieshaber kicked ass … he really stole the show. If you and I presented today, it would have been a great show.

And yes, the rest were clueless on the PowerPoint aspect and most read from a script. The ones that did not read from a script, read the slides.

One presenter could not answer a single question about his content. I was really disappointed as far as that goes.

The overall message was simple to me: if you want better fuel economy (and I am not so sure the market does at $3 a gallon), then your vehicle development process will take longer, dies will cost more, and you are going to pay more for the long-awaited car or truck as a consequence to reducing mass.

I mean, to do what they talked about by 2020, the damn dies are going to look like they did 40 years ago with heavy casting construction and fully inserted punch openings, trim lines, and flange breaklines.

And forget about three or four dies. Better add one or two more for restrike.

I see bad things coming … more on this rant in a post in a day or two.

]]> By: eric kam http://www.dieguy.com/2010/05/05/good-to-see-faithful-friends-and-fans/stephens/comment-page-1/#comment-275 eric kam Wed, 05 May 2010 21:24:08 +0000 http://www.dieguy.com/?p=763#comment-275 Too bad I missed it. I just love a good eye chart. Guess they missed Guy's 10,20,30 rules. Too bad I missed it. I just love a good eye chart. Guess they missed Guy’s 10,20,30 rules.

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