G. W. Dion Company
 
 
 
 

 

 

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Extrusion Information

 

Goal:

 
To Achieve and Maintain Excellence in Extruded Products
 

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

  

Achieve the Competitive Edge Now!

 
- Develop a winning extrusion team without hiring additional staff
- Decrease lead times for approved extrusions

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Increase extrusion through-put and reduce costly die errors
- Reduce scrap and die corrections
- Identify critical issues and develop tactical solutions for the 21st century
- Receive an independent analysis of your extrusion and die correction practices
- Customize the training of your personnel to suit you needs
- Reduce unnecessary die expenditures
 

Benefits to your Manufacturing Operation:

 
- Extrusion capability analysis
- Increase complex extrusion capabilities

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Develop the ability to extrude complex profiles
- Develop differential advantages
- Learn how to evaluate and correct complex profiles
- Increase ability to extrude 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 extrusion capabilities
- Improving communication to help expedite lead times and minimize errors
- Digital photography
- Email/Internet
- Reporting systems
- Paperless Factory
- Correction facility improvements
- Culture
- Equipment
- Tooling acquisition process and strategies
- Understand exactly why you purchase each tool
- Learn how to develop lasting partnerships
 
Technical skills include:
- Product development
- 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
  - Reduction of die trial and costs
  - Die design
  - Die repair