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Die-Setting Practices and Safety Seminar
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - Thursday, June 5, 2025
Cleveland, OH & Virtual
Die setting is a critically important activity that occurs multiple times throughout the day in the modern press shop. Proper die-setting practices and safety procedures are of prime concern because they can greatly impact machine uptime, machine maintenance, overall equipment life, die-maintenance cost, product quality, process repeatability and, most importantly, operator safety.
This seminar addresses fundamental die-setting concepts and best practices, including:
- Understanding press capacity/limitations
- Servo drive technology
- Press safety and point of operation safeguarding
- Die removal and installation steps
- Die clamps and fastener selection
- Die clamping methods
- Clamping problems to avoid
- Setting the feed and straightener
- Feed angle, sensor windows, and pilot release timing
- Troubleshooting setup-related problems
AGENDA
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Presentations
12:00 p.m. Lunch
12:45 p.m. Presentations
4:30 p.m. AdjournThursday, June 5, 2025
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Presentations
11:45 a.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. Presentations
2:45 p.m. Adjourn
PRESENTERS
Peter Ulintz, PMA Technical Consultant, Pace Technologies, LLC
Peter Ulintz worked in the metal stamping and tool and die industries for 37 years prior to serving as PMA’s technical director from July 2015 to May 2024. His background includes tool and die making, die processing and design, engineering management, and product development. Peter now is an industry consultant, training metalforming industry employees at PMA technical seminars and conferences, in addition to providing in-plant training. He is past president of the North American Deep Drawing Research Group, and authors the Tooling by Design column in MetalForming magazine.
Todd Wenzel, President, TCR-Integrated Stamping Systems
Todd Wenzel is president of TCR Integrated Stamping Systems, Wisconsin Rapids, WI. TCR provides consulting, service, and sales and turnkey installations of capital equipment for hand-fed, progressive-die and transfer stamping applications. While the bulk of the work performed has been in the upper Midwest, TCR provides its services all over the United States, and in nine other countries as well. Its systems have been used to produce everything from microscopic medical components to large stampings for the heavy-truck and earth-moving equipment industries.
Wenzel has been a technical speaker for the Precision Metalforming Association for more than a decade, including holding one to two seminars a year to support and help train companies in the stamping industry. He also is a frequent contributing writer for MetalForming magazine, covering a variety of technical topics. His decades of experience with specifying and installing a wide range of turnkey production systems has provided a wealth of practical experience that Wenzel gladly shares with his audiences to help them become even more competitive stampers.
SEMINAR LOCATION
Precision Metalforming Association
6363 Oak Tree Blvd.
Independence, OH 44131
216-901-8800
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Holiday Inn Cleveland South Independence
6001 Rockside Rd.
Independence, OH 44131
Reserve your room online to receive a special rate of $115 (plus tax). Hotel accommodations include free self-parking. Hotel does not provide shuttle transportation.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
In-Person/Virtual
$499 Members
$699 Nonmembers
Note: In-person registration includes breakfast and lunch.
Note: Virtual registrants will receive their unique log-in link via email from Zoom. If an additional connection is detected using your unique link during the seminar it will be disconnected.
To register by phone, please call Marianne Sichi at 216-901-8800 ext. 150.
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