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Article: No more black magic: empirical data, a software enhancement, and teamwork take the black magic out of bending stainless steel.(metal forming)
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- Fabricating & Metalworking
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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The precision bending of stainless steel, especially in heavy gauge and plate thicknesses, can require special processing. This was killing productivity for Moline Machinery, a leading maker of made-to-order industrial baking equipment that runs stainless almost exclusively to meet food industry sanitary requirements.
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Moline builds automated lines for high volume production of doughnuts, sweet goods, pastries, cookies, pizza crusts and specialty breads by wholesale bakers and food processors. The factory fabricates 10-ga to 16-ga 304#2B-grade stainless sheet, and bends up to 1/2-in stainless plate, for everything from moulders, ...