Seoul, South Korea - January 15, 2008 - Replacing or duplicating a stamping die leads to unnecessary costs, inefficiencies and delays.
Even though the original die has been through an exhaustive quality check, making duplicates involves more than another round of machining and assembly operations. Instead, stamping die engineers must repeat the entire die tryout process to produce quality stampings.
When General Motors announced a second Chevy Aveo production facility in Poland,
the
stamping die engineers at the
GM Daewoo facility sought an alternative that would condense, or eliminate, the multi-week tryout process.
With more than 25 large die sets for the Aveo, which is called Kalos in Korean markets, the gains in efficiency, cost reduction and lead time would be enormous…
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