G. W. Dion Company
 
 
 
 

 

 

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Die Manufacturing Information

 

Goal:

 
To Achieve and Maintain Excellence in Extrusion Tooling.
 

We help die manufacturers achieve success by specializing in analysis and improvement of design and manufacturing process techniques to help increase tooling performance.  Isn’t now the time to investigate ways to increase your tooling throughput, decrease costs and expand manufacturing capabilities through design and manufacturing practices?

  

Achieve the Competitive Edge Now!

 

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Develop new higher tolerance manufacturing techniques and processes
- Decrease lead times for tooling

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Increase through-put and reduce costly errors
- Develop a winning manufacturing team without hiring additional staff
- Reduce scrap and die corrections
- Identify critical issues, and develop tactical solutions for the 21st century
- Receive an independent analysis of your design and manufacturing practices
- Customize the training of your personnel to suit you needs
- Reduce unnecessary expenditures
 

Benefits to your Manufacturing Operation:

 
- Die manufacturing capability analysis
- Increase complex die capabilities

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Develop the ability to manufacture complex profiles
- Develop differential advantages
- Learn how to evaluate and correct complex profiles
- Increase ability to manufacture dies to tighter tolerances
- Create a valuable tooling performance evaluation and record keeping program with your customers
- Reducing overall tooling cost
- Inspection of tooling
- Weight per foot vs. target
- Die returns
- Lead times
- Die trial average
- Die pulls
- On time delivery
- Die life
- Die design philosophy
- Understand the important aspects of die design to assist in broadening your capabilities
- Improving communication to help expedite lead times and minimize errors
- Digital photography
- Email/Internet
- Reporting systems
- Paperless Factory
- Manufacturing facility improvements
- Culture
- Equipment
- Tooling and material acquisition process and strategies
- Understand exactly why you purchase each tool
- Learn how to develop lasting partnerships
 
Technical skills include:
- Product development
- New die manufacturing techniques
- Extensive CAD/CAM, CNC background
- Business planning and development
- Extrusion die design and manufacture
- Customer development
- Process engineering
- Project management
- Cost reduction
- Product flow analysis
- Developing and leading customer training programs
  - Emerging technology
  - Reductino of die trial and costs
  - Die design
  - Die manufacturing processes.