Happy New Year, from everyone at MetalForming magazine and the Precision Metal-forming Association. To help ring in the New Year, I'm pleased to let you know that with this issue we inaugurate a new monthly column: Metal Matters, culled from the deep depths of the knowledge well belonging to Danny Schaeffler. Schaeffler, the author of our monthly Science of Forming column, explains the direction of the new column: "Four years ago, I had the privilege of taking over MetalForming magazine's The Science of Forming column from Dr. Stuart Keeler, the Father of the forming limit diagram. Those were big shoes to fill, and I have tried to do justice to the memory of Dr. Keeler and to the huge amount of knowledge he shared over his long and storied career. "Dr. Keeler's passion was to bring science to the press shop floor," he continues, "and his Science of Forming articles reflected just that. As I've taken over the column, I have incorporated concepts related to common issues observed while working with global sheet metal producers and manufacturing companies both small and large. With the evolution of the content, the MetalForming editorial staff and I have decided to evolve the Science of Forming into a new column, Metal Matters."
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