Broken Rules

Posted by stephens on Nov 10, 2009 in Engineering Decisions, Tips & Techniques | 0 comments

I mentioned in my previous post about how our die standards completely changed the way automotive dies were designed and built. Here are 13 the rules we broke to create new ones: Units: went from 75 years of inch-pound to hard metric to save 30% in component costs. Casting: reduced casting by 60% by going from 3 inch walls to 45 mm. Coring: simplified the...

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