The June 2004 issue of Stamping Journal has an article "Dangerous Curves" about Jaguar's mass production of aluminum body structures for the 2003 XJ. This...
Vallury, I am located in the Twinsburg, Ohio area. One of the three major Chrysler Group stamping plants is located here. I can be in the Detroit area...
The Spring 2004 issue of Body Engineering Journal contains an article "ASC Excitement: The New Way of Creating Specialty Cars". This is about the partnering of...
Gary, The Vehicle Design program at Macomb Community College encourages participants to join the American Society of Body Engineers. The ASBE website is...
Joel Hough, This is what I understood you to say during the July 6, 2004 meeting of the SME Dies and Stamping Tech Group. Your company has one of the 4 or so...
Joe Hough, It was revealed to me yesterday that the stamping facility I am employed at is planning a change in drawing lubricant. Statistical data on defective...
I volunteered for inverse layoff from Twinsburg Stamping Plant the week of July 19, 2004. This was due to two assembly plants being on summer shutdowns. The...
Gary, Have you considered finding some investors and buying a small stamper? Then you can institute a continuous improvement process and let the employees of...
Note: kindly ignore any empty headers; there are no intended attachments to this email. We are trying to correct the problem. Thank you. Jim: My interest is in...
Gary Gathen
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Jul 28, 2004 11:52 pm
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Gary, I interviewed recently for a job as a CNC Service Technician. I thought I would discuss this with you since I feel the job is extremely applicable to the...
Dan, It looks to me like the business with team leaders as called out in Letter 124 is something intended to be copied from Toyota. What do think the...
Dan, Back in July I picked up publication called the City Crow from a door shipping rack. TSP supplies minivan doors to the Windsor Assembly Plant and...
Mike Lutsch, Back around 1990 Machine Design magazine published an editorial based on a piece of research concerning social status. Apparently some ...
We had earlier discussed aluminum spot welding. Information in this link implies that it does not work well. The question that arises is whether magnetic pulse...
I have distributed this email to my dies and stamping email list. I am getting a little feedback that not everyone on that list is interested in welding of...
Old Auto Parts Reverse Engineered Ray and Kenny Gollahon of Antique Auto (Brookville, OH) saw their first laser scanner, the LaserQC from Virtek Laser Systems...
Jim Peck
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Aug 9, 2004 5:50 pm
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Gary, The August 6, 2004 issue of DaimlerChrysler Times discusses some of what is going on at the Toledo Assembly and Toledo North Assembly Plants. These two...
This email distributed to my instructors email list. This email distributed to my coworkers email list. Mike: The skilled trade apprentices at Twinsburg...
Jim Peck
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Aug 13, 2004 4:38 pm
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Binder Wrap Simulation Draw Die Simulation Springback Simulation Blank Development (Part Unfold) Simulation Part Thinning, Wrinkling and Cracking Analysis ...
Terry Cowan, I had the good fortune to take a number of courses in the Vehicle Design program at Macomb Community College located in Warren, Michigan. The GM...
I worked for awhile at a place that had a homebrew CNC router setup. They bought huge sheets (maybe 6 foot by 12 foot) of 2" thick plywood and routed one or...
I know someone who knows Mr. Harbour who publishes the Harbour Report. Harbour actually makes a living from his endeavor. I suspect most of his data comes from...
My memory has been jogged. I believe that an issue of the DaimlerChrysler Times from sometime in the last year had an article about a team located in the...
Most, perhaps all, of the automobile lemons of my lifetime have been GM. The Olds V8 passenger diesel is around 25 years in the past but may be one of the...
Jeff: I have no photo's of the inside of Toyota Georgetown. Just one more thing that will get you thrown out of there. ... From: Jim Peck To:...
Jim Peck
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Sep 11, 2004 12:24 pm
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At Toyota Georgetown, proposed Kaizens go to Manufacturing Engineering (the individual Manufacturing Engineers are called Specialists) for the purpose of...
The July 2004 issue of Modern Machine Shop has an article, Humility, Inc., about Pyramid Machine of Somerset, Kentucky. I happened upon this because someone...
It is my belief, based on my own experiences and the stories I am told by others, that failed industrial projects and programs regularly occur. These tend not...
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