Tools, maintenance

Certain tools are perishable i.e. they are consumed during the process. Others are reusable after maintenance and this is where adequate controls need to be in place. The tool control system needs to cover tool selection, set-up, tool change, and tool maintenance You will need procedures for withdrawing maintainable tools from service, performing the maintenance, and then putting the tools back into service. You need to build in safeguards that prevent worn tools being used and to replenish tools when their useful life has expired. 

If you do subcontract tool maintenance, you need to keep track of assignments so that you are not without vital tools when you need them. 

Water-based coolants, as diluted and used in service, are much cheaper than neat oils, and they offer remarkable economic benefits in the applications to which they are best suited. (Neat oils, however, are preferred for some machining processes - usually involving severe operations - where they give overall production economies and reduced machine-tool maintenance.)... 

All this marketplace action of the new electronic is targeted to enable customers all over the world to purchase high-quality TPs, other plastic-related materials, molding equipment, tooling, maintenance supplies, packaging materials, and related services. 

Mold gaps must be minimized by means of increased clamping force and vertical flash faces, whereby increased tool maintenance should be scheduled due... 

This localized approach for monitoring stamping operations provides a wide array of benefits. These include a better quality, quicker, and more precise setup, improved tool maintenance, and the ability to have automatic presses run unattended. In this fashion, the load monitor has become a quality control inspector. 

It takes into account incoming materials, transporting, and storage tool maintenance. 

Manufacturing tools Maintenance aimed at Identifying and Utilizing tools and... 

Adhesives based on epoxy resins find use in the consumer, fiimiture, construction, automotive, aircraft/aerospace, electrical/elec-tronic and industrial tool maintenance industries where they provide both protective and load bearing properties. 

Tooling maintenance—costs that are incurred in the care and upkeep of tooling to ensure it is suitable for production purposes. Tooling maintenance may be included in the original tooling cost, allocated to the process cost, or treated as a unique cost expense. 

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