Short, practical writing on tool life, bend angles, strip layout and the engineering decisions behind a tooling quote. Written by the people who build and trial the tools.
A TOOL PAL turret punch tool passed 1.5 lakh hits and a full load test, and is still running. Here is what that result does — and does not — tell you about your own tooling.
Tonnes per metre, V-opening and material thickness decide the tool — not the other way around. A short guide to the numbers on the data sheet.
Volume, part size and press capacity decide more than the tooling price does. When one hit is better than four stations.
A part arrives with no drawing and years of wear. The sequence we use to separate original geometry from damage.
What has to be measured, what can be changed, and where localisation quietly goes wrong.
Four symptoms that usually mean the process — not the operator — needs a structured review.
The occasional note
Tool life, tooling strategy and process arithmetic. No newsletters about newsletters.
Beyond the reading
Send the part, the tool and the failure mode. We will tell you where we would start looking.
