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Has Retrofitting Worked for You?

Posted October 26, 2011 7:28 AM

One of the items in the Metal Forming section in this issue highlights how modern monitoring techniques can help optimize a long-established process like metal stamping. What is your experience of this approach to process improvement? Has the application of some neat bit of up-to-date technology helped solve a previously intractable problem on your shop floor? What is the best bit of retrofitting that you have seen?

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