Convenience

Posted by stephens on Mar 8, 2010 in Automated Transactions, Engineering Decisions, Web Technologies | 0 comments

My son has a 1st grade homework assignment that requires him to interview me on how technology has changed since I was a 1st grader. This got me thinking about how much change we have seen in the die business in the past 20 years. Most in the business today take solid modeling and formability simulation for granted. When I got started, it was all manual. The...

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Toys in the Sandbox

Posted by stephens on Mar 5, 2010 in Automated Transactions, Rants, Tips & Techniques | 0 comments

A friend of mine asked for some old articles I have written for MetalForming Magazine. I stumbled across one of my favorites … and I would like to share it here: When I saw a die design for an automotive body stamping for the first time, it was a confusing sea of intersecting lines drawn on paper with a pencil. Bond and H-lead to be exact. The only...

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Obsessive Computer Disorder

Posted by stephens on Jun 17, 2009 in Demos, Rants, Tips & Techniques, Web Technologies | 0 comments

Eric Kam wrote a great post today about how geeks obsess over the wrong things. When a geek tells me about some cool functionality that only a PhD would understand, I respond with “who cares?”. If the answer to that question does not boil it down to a time or money savings for the end user, then the answer is in the question. This mantra is not...

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