The goal of troubleshooting tool and die making is to optimize your tooling investment by balancing tooling costs against the expected return on investment.
This program explores a four-step process to follow when a tool or die unexpectedly or prematurely fails:
- Gather all the facts - Confirm & compare the facts to best practices - Search out the root cause or causes of the failure - Plan and test a corrective action
This task becomes complicated as there are many activities involved, including tool design, material selection, machining, heat treating, finish machining and maintenance. All of these activities interact to affect the overall production performance of a tool.
