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This Month's Meetings

SME LUNCH & LEARN:

Meeting Date: Thursday, Sept 29th, 2005
Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Lunch & Learn
Location: Spartanburg Steel Plant, Spartanburg, SC.  Directions Below.
Program: MEETING THE NEW DEMANDS OF FRICTION & TOOL PERFORMANCE FROM
ADVANCED HIGH STRENGTH STEEL Quantifying & Controlling Friction by Jeff Jeffery, President & CEO of IRMCO, an advanced forming film technology firm, specializing in metal strain, friction analysis, and process optimization.

Raw materials and overhead accounts for over 75% of the total operating cost of a metal
stamping company’s budget. Stamping lubricants are less then 1/2 percent of the total
budget, though they significantly influence leanness and profitability. Their influence on metal
strain distribution and friction can be the determining factor of company profit.

Key Areas Presented
• Overview of High Strength Steel use in the auto industry
• The data driven outcome when comparing stamping lubricant technology performance
• Why High Strength Steel places new demands on lubricants
• Why friction management plays a key role in tool performance
• Available diagnostic tools for quantifying friction performance
• How to avoid costly tool failure when selecting a lubricant
Learning Outcomes
• Easy to achieve cost savings opportunities with improved friction results
• How to improve friction results and increase tool life on new alloys
• How to use diagnostic tools when quantifying friction performance
• How to avoid costly tool failure when selecting a lubricant

Jeff does an outstanding job of helping engineers really understand that a well designed experiment with quantitative results can be used to improve yields, reduce scrap, reduce cycle time, improve product quality, and allow engineers and managers to go home and sleep through the night. 

Who Should Attend:
Business Owners
Lean Process Directors
Plant Managers
Quality Managers
Metallurgists
Manufacturing & Environmental Engineers
Tooling Engineers & Die Makers
 

Spartanburg Steel Products

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

From Atlanta, GA • Take I-85 North to Business I-85 (Exit 69). • Take Exit 2C to Fairforest Rd. • Turn left onto Fairforest Rd. then turn right onto New Cut Rd. • Spartanburg Steel & Spartanburg Stainless will be on the left across from Spartanburg Technical College. (From the airport (GSP) the total trip is approx. 17 miles or 20 minutes)

From Charlotte, NC • Take I-85 South to Business I-85 (exit 77). • Take Exit 3 to New Cut Rd. • Turn right at the yield sign and Spartanburg Steel & Spartanburg Stainless will be on the right across from Spartanburg Technical College.

Contact: RSVP to Andrew Wyse rsvp.sme164@gmail.com 
Cost: Free
Web Site: http://chapters.sme.org/164/homepage.htm

SME EVENING MEETING

Meeting  Date: Tuesday, Sept 27th, 2005
Time: 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm  
Location: Synesis International Inc, 30 Creekview Court Greenville, SC 29615  Directions Below.
Program:

For everyone who wants to know what the future holds for the Upstate of SC and the Automotive Industry, Ricardo Studart, the President of Synesis International Inc. www.synesisintl.com will discuss some of the transformations the Automotive Supply Chain will face in the next few years, what business factors are driving these changes, how information technology is addressing some of its challenges, and how manufacturers can deploy supply chain integration for competitive advantage. Mr. Studart will also discuss trends in the automotive supply chain integration.

Directions to Synesis International building:  From the intersection of I-385 and I-85, take I-385 north towards downtown Greenville. • Exit at Roper Mountain Road, Exit 37. • Go 0.3 miles. • Turn right at Roper Mountain Rd. • Go 0.4 miles. • Turn left at Roper Mountain Rd. Extension. • Go 0.6 miles. • Turn left at Creekview Ct. • Go to 30 Creekview Court.   

Synesis International is a full service multi-disciplined systems, operations, management, and engineering consulting and integration firm. We provide a full spectrum of planning, analysis, and design-to-implementation services for new facilities, product lines, manufacturing processes, material handling/distribution systems, and the full range of enterprise-wide information/control systems and software. Synesis also helps companies modernize and improve their existing operations by streamlining their business processes, material and work flows, improving layouts and procedures, improving human resource development/productivity, streamlining the product development process, and applying automation and information systems technology where it best supports the total business objectives.

Contact: RSVP to Andrew Wyse rsvp.sme164@gmail.com 
Cost: Free
Web Site: http://chapters.sme.org/164/homepage.htm

SME CALENDAR for 2005

SME Regional Events

SME ANNOUNCES the 2006 MOTORSPORTS FOR MANUFACTURING EVENT TO TAKE PLACE IN INDIANAPOLIS

Manufacturing for Performance will connect manufactures with the latest developments in aerodynamics, additive manufacturing, advanced materials, design machining prototyping, advanced fabrication, joining technologies, and more. Participants will learn how to reduce cycle times, improve surface finishes, increase part repeatability and quality, and accelerate product development times.

We invite you to participate in this new and exciting event! We are currently recruiting speakers and industry advisors interested in performance manufacturing technologies and applications. To learn more about how you can submit a presentation or download information as to why you should exhibit please visit our website at www.sme.org/motorpsorts or contact Tracy Watson, SME Motorsports Liaison at tlcw@yahoo.com.

Gentlemen, start your engines!