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Fasteners could be ‘green’ or ‘mean’…
Fasteners could be ‘green’ or ‘mean’… By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies At September’s UN General Assembly, US President Donald Trump lauded defence spending and strongly derided ‘green energy’ and the ‘carbon footprint’.
Efficient tooling
Efficient tooling By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies Visit any museum of human development and you will see what has been made over the history of mankind. However, what you are unlikely to see are the tools that were invented and developed to allow this progress to be made. From dug-out canoes to Archimedean screws, turning an idea into reality requires tools and the skills to make it happen. Clearly, for hand tools, the tool must fit the hand.
Heading and forging in a digital age
Heading and forging in a digital age By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies In today’s energy expensive world, the need to only do what you need to do in accomplishing a task is termed efficiency. Digital information concerning the properties of a given metal, its strength, its initial shape, surface condition, and the machine/tooling used to work it, should be sufficient to analytically determine the energy required to change its shape.
The testing of fasteners
The testing of fasteners By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies No genuine forward progress can be made without first obtaining a clear understanding of the knowledge required to make it. Getting to the bottom of a problem means just that – because without sound foundations, nothing substantial can be constructed. For example, chemistry is based on the identification of basic elements, without knowledge of which the world we currently inhabit could not exist.
Why heading and forging?
Why heading and forging? By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies The terms heading and forging relating to the manufacture of fasteners seem such humble subjects and yet, what appears as obvious and self-evident – as something practised by ‘smiths’ for millennia – can also hold secrets that can easily be overlooked. It is these underlying aspects of heading and forging that this article seeks to address.
The dimensional measurement of fasteners
The dimensional measurement of fasteners By Peter Standring, technical secretary at Industrial Metalforming Technologies As an engineer, the opportunity to solve a problem provides great delight. Where a solution already exists without knowing the problem – well that poses an additional challenge. Whilst tracking some elusive information online, I recently came across a genuine bona-fide 250 year old mystery known as, Roman Dodecahedrons.
Global aerospace – a glimpse into a crystal ball
Global aerospace – a glimpse into a crystal ball By Peter Standring, technical secretary at Industrial Metalforming Technologies All forms of transport require a source of power. Manual and wind for early ships; draught animals and horses on land; steam engines powered by coal gave way to oil. Then, independently on the same day in 1886, two German engineers, Benz and Daimler, both filed patents for petrol driven engines.
Inflationary pressures on fasteners
Inflationary pressures on fasteners By Dr Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) The definition of inflation is related to the context in which it is used. For a balloonist and a cosmologist, it implies an expansion of space. For someone in purchasing it indicates a rise in the price of goods and services. For governments, it means a reduction in the value of the currency and hence its purchasing power.
The right to repair
The right to repair 31 March 2022 By Dr Peter Standring, technical secretary at Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This almost childlike question is one known around the world and is indeed profound. In fact, reduced to its simplest form, it could be stated as: ‘Cause’ and ‘Effect’.
Fasteners: Standard versus non-standard
Fasteners: Standard versus non-standard 10 December 2021 By Dr Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) Without any doubt, the two factors in my own lifetime that have created the world in which we live are globalisation and standardisation. Globalisation in all its varied forms affects every aspect of life – including the planet itself.
Product disassembly: A keystone in achieving a carbon neutral future?
Product disassembly: A keystone in achieving a carbon neutral future? 29 July 2021 By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) It is an interesting observation that for multi-component assemblies, fasteners not only hold things together but very often, they determine how things are made.
Product disassembly: A keystone in achieving a carbon neutral future?
Product disassembly: A keystone in achieving a carbon neutral future? 19 July 2021 By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) It is an interesting observation that for multi-component assemblies, fasteners not only hold things together but very often, they determine how things are made.
Fastener design
Fastener design 25 March 2021 By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) In Issue 123 (May 2020) of Fastener + Fixing Magazine I penned an article titled: ‘Design engineers and fasteners’1 in which I asked the question: “Where will the designers of tomorrow learn about fasteners?” A simple scan of Fastener + Fixing Magazine, will instantly reveal a potential mind-numbing plethora of fastener types, designs and range of applications.
Fastener design
Fastener design 31 March 2021 By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) In Issue 123 (May 2020) of Fastener + Fixing Magazine I penned an article titled: ‘Design engineers and fasteners’1 in which I asked the question: “Where will the designers of tomorrow learn about fasteners?” A simple scan of Fastener + Fixing Magazine, will instantly reveal a potential mind-numbing plethora of fastener types, designs and range of applications.
3D printing - a life without fasteners?
3D printing - a life without fasteners? 23 October 2020 By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) Clearly, living as we do only a few decades into the Digital Age, the rapid transition from electronic calculator through computer to smartphone has rendered the statement ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ an absurdity.
3D printing - a life without fasteners?
3D printing - a life without fasteners? 05 October 2020 By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) Clearly, living as we do only a few decades into the Digital Age, the rapid transition from electronic calculator through computer to smartphone has rendered the statement ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ an absurdity.
Design engineers and fasteners
Design engineers and fasteners 15 June 2020 By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) Whilst only a few people could ever claim to have been educated in design, it rarely prevents the majority from exercising their opinions. Given the range of ‘professional’ design creations, from landmark buildings to the often outlandish, it is clear that money and creativity do not always equate to common sense.
Design engineers and fasteners
Design engineers and fasteners 22 May 2020 By Peter Standring, technical secretary, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) Whilst only a few people could ever claim to have been educated in design, it rarely prevents the majority from exercising their opinions. Given the range of ‘professional’ design creations, from landmark buildings to the often outlandish, it is clear that money and creativity do not always equate to common sense.
Clever fastening by forming
Clever fastening by forming 14 December 2016 By Dr Peter Standring, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) Ref: FFT161213 That we live in a digital age is apparent by the sight of so many of our fellow humans being glued to their smartphones. Yet it is barely half a century since metalforming was supplanted by electronics after at least three millennium of maintaining its strategic position in both expressions of wealth and weapons of warfare.
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