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Stamping Higher-Strength Steels 5-Part Virtual Seminar Series

Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Virtual Seminar
This five-part virtual seminar covers everything you need to know about stamping higher-strength steels. It consists of five two-hour seminars hosted by four industry experts. Registration includes all five parts.
Key topics—You need to understand these topics when dealing with higher-strength steels.
- The origin and effect of elastic and plastic stress and strain
- The effect that different mechanical properties have on different forming modes
- Corrective measures for springback, dimensional variation, heat and friction that increase as yield strength increases
- Proper pressroom equipment selection
- Special process considerations for correcting coil defects and managing springback
- Applying the science of lubrication to your advantage
- Using data to drive lubricant decisions
- Welding higher-strength steels
- Effects of stamping higher strength steel on dies and equipment
AGENDA
- Tuesday, February 4, 2025: 1:00-3:00 p.m. ET—Material Properties-Part 1
- Thursday, February 6, 2025: 1:00-3:00 p.m. ET—Material Properties-Part 2
- Tuesday, February 11, 2025: 1:00-3:00 p.m. ET—Lubrication Redefined
- Thursday, February 13, 2025: 1:00-3:00 p.m. ET—Resistance Welding
- Tuesday, February 18, 2025: 1:00-3:00 p.m. ET—Stamping Processes
INSTRUCTORS
Jeff Jeffery, CEO, IRMCOJeff Jeffery is the CEO of IRMCO, a global 105-year-old privately owned firm based just north of Chicago in Evanston, IL. He worked alongside chemical engineer Arthur Dampts to develop the industry’s first deep-drawing synthetic lubricant more than 30 years ago. Today, IRMCO and Jeff are dedicated to taking cost out of metal stamping operations with new technology.
Ray Michelena, Safety Director/Seminar Instructor, T. J. Snow CompanyRay Michelena has more than 20 years of experience with resistance welding. As one of T. J. Snow Company’s resistance welding seminar instructors and service techs, he travels to metalworking plants nationwide. He also is the company’s safety director and chief pilot.
Daniel J. Schaeffler, Ph.D., President, Engineering Quality Solutions, Inc. and Chief Content Officer, 4M Partners, LLCDanny Schaeffler has spent his 30-year career focusing on materials selection for sheet metal product applications, stamping tooling buyoff, hands-on formability analyses, and manufacturing process improvement. He is the founder and president of Engineering Quality Solutions and is passionate about training new and experienced employees at manufacturing companies about how sheet metal properties impact their forming success.
Schaeffler wrote The Science of Forming and Metal Matters monthly columns for PMA's MetalForming magazine, as well as articles for other magazines and journals. Through his other company, 4M Partners, Schaeffler wrote and published "Sheet Metal Forming-Engineering and Business Management." Danny provides seminars on sheet metal formability for the Precision Metalforming Association.
Danny is the lead content developer and presenter of the AHSS Metallurgy and Formability Training materials for the Auto/Steel Partnership as well as the Metallurgy and Forming Technical Editor of WorldAutoSteel Advanced High Strength Steel Application Guidelines.
Schaeffler serves on the SAE International Metals Technical Committee responsible for specification creation and modification and is past president of North American Deep Drawing Research Group.
Peter Ulintz, PMA Technical Consultant, Pace Technologies, LLCPeter 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.
REGISTRATION
Virtual Seminar
PMA members: $299
Nonmembers: $499
Note: Virtual registrants will receive their unique log-in link via email from Webinar Admin. If an additional connection is detected using your unique link during the seminar it will be disconnected.
Registrants will receive a link to the presentation recordings after the seminar series.
To register over the phone, please contact Marianne Sichi at 216-901-8800 ext. 150.
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