Where is your press brake tooling?

Solid organization provides the foundation for improvement in bending

10/30/2014

If you perform a time study of a typical press brake operation, you’ll probably uncover a significant amount of time between the last good part of the previous job and the first good part of the next job. Operators may spend a good portion of that downtime away from the machine, searching for the material and tools they need. In lean manufacturing, that’s a classic waste.

October 30, 2014