Faster Than You

Posted by stephens on Sep 2, 2009 in Automated Transactions, Engineering Decisions | 0 comments

My pal Eric Kam has an excellent post about estimating dies. He is correct in that most shops do not know their actual costs to build a one-off stamping die. Eric is also correct that the estimate of costs by these shops has a high degree of variation. I think the intellectual argument he suggests is valid, but the culture of the die business will get hung up on...

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Speedraft Overview

Posted by stephens on Aug 19, 2009 in Automated Transactions, Demos | 0 comments

Here is an overview of how Speedraft helps you save time and money:

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qCalculus

Posted by stephens on Aug 15, 2009 in Automated Transactions, Engineering Decisions | 0 comments

There was a discussion on a LinkedIn tool and die group recently about how long it takes to quote a progressive die. One response was simply “two weeks”. This is wrong. Even assuming it takes two weeks to quote each progressive die, the statement “two weeks”, to be accurate, implies the die shop has 100% conversion. In other words, the...

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