Seminar to address changing needs of metalforming industry.
Press Release Summary:
Scheduled for Oct 1, 2008, Short-Run Metalforming Seminar will help attendees learn how to offer customers best possible stamping and/or fabricating solution. Seminar is intended for product designers, process engineers, estimators, purchasing personnel, plant managers, and other upper-level management. Five speakers will cover planning and understanding costs, turret-press and press-brake technology, spinning/hydroforming, low-cost tooling materials, and reduction in setup time.
Original Press Release:
New Short-Run Metalforming Seminar to Address Changing Needs of Metalforming Industry
CLEVELAND, OH- August 8, 2008-The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) is offering a new Short-Run Metalforming Seminar to be held on October 1, 2008, in Cleveland, OH.
Developed by PMA's Technical Seminar Committee, the program will help attendees learn how to offer customers the best possible stamping and/or fabricating solution. The seminar is designed for product designers, process engineers, estimators, purchasing personnel, plant managers, presidents and other upper-level management.
Five dynamic speakers will present on topics including planning and understanding costs, turret-press and press-brake technology, spinning/hydroforming, low-cost tooling materials, reduction in setup time and more. To wrap up the seminar, attendees will discuss a case study of Interlake Stamping followed by a tour of its Willoughby, OH, facility. The plant features a modern pressroom, production machining, and complete toolroom and inspection facilities.
For more information, visit www.pma.org/register or contact Deanna Cunningham at 216-901-8800 or dcunningham@pma.org.
PMA is the full-service trade association representing the $91-billion metalforming industry of North America-the industry that creates precision metal products using stamping, fabricating and other value-added processes. Its nearly 1200 member companies include metal stampers, fabricators, spinners, slide formers and roll formers as well as suppliers of equipment, materials and services to the industry. Members are located in 30 countries, with the majority found in North America¾in 41 states of the United States as well as Canada and Mexico.
