When a new contract with a U.S. heavy-equipment manufacturer presented metal stamper Ward Manufacturing Co., Evanston, IL, with a production puzzle, the family-owned business turned to servo-driven mechanical-press technology to solve it. "The job required us to produce 14 different parts from different materials in four operations," says company vice president Tom Ward, "but die sizes and heights were unknown variables. We were asked to specify equipment when we didn't know all of the job parameters."
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