Faced with excessive lube use and slowed production of drawn parts, this manufacturer turned to tool coating. The result: smooth workflow and drastically reduced lube usage. Beam Industries, looking to cut production time on a challenging drawn part, found that excessive lube was the problem. Labor required to lube every fourth or fifth part, coupled with the need to rinse all that lube off prior to painting, caused an expensive bottleneck. What to do? After an extensive investigation, the company sent the tooling out for thermal-diffusion vanadium-carbide coating via Arvin TD. With the tooling coated, Beam experiences high part production with lube use just a tiny fraction of what it was.
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