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Metal Stamping and Pressing Manufacturing

Metal stamping and pressing serves a vast range of other industries including aerospace, agriculture, automotive, construction, electronics, medical, military, and telecommunications, to name a few. How do manufacturers remain competitive in a market that requires both high volume and critically precise components for everything from swing sets to submarines? Continuous Improvement! There is a constant push toward internal process improvements, and even longstanding techniques like SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Die) continue to be very relevant in the path to sustained profit margins.

Companies in the metal stamping industry often need to move large coils that weigh thousands of pounds, measure materials in tons, and somehow still cut out every possible second from the manufacturing process. As such, OEE is an important metric in the industry. Vorne XL moves stamping and pressing operations far beyond manual data capture to gain critical insights for effectively driving process improvement and actualizing change with 100+ metrics and 20+ data dimensions.

Other benefits of XL that customers love include no software to install, no servers to maintain, no recurring fees, and no contracts. Instead you get unlimited users, free technical support, a 3-year warranty, and free software updates. All in an inexpensive, off-the-shelf product.

Driving Improvement for Metal Stamping and Pressing

Our metal stamping and pressing customers strive to make something with tighter tolerances, greater durability, and less rework or scrap than other options on the market. It is critical to be able to optimize the process while maintaining the product that your customers want and need.

The Vorne XL Productivity Appliance empowers metal stamping and pressing manufacturers to monitor their processes, improve throughput, and maximize efficiency, all while preserving the integrity of their products. XL drops onto your existing process, making it a quick and easy solution that requires little to no changes on the line.

Screen capture of a pareto chart showing production and startup rejects by part in the Vorne XL oee software.

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Key Benefits for Metal Stamping and Pressing

Vorne XL products are completely agnostic to the type of equipment in your manufacturing process. This is a huge advantage as you can easily apply XL to any equipment and get the same wealth of information. XL includes I/O to integrate with your process, a scoreboard for your operators, and built-in reporting for your managers. It easily scales from machine to enterprise. Monitor processes like blanking, embossing and coining on mechanical, hydraulic or servo presses, deep draw presses, press breaks or fin blanking lines, and many others with one solution, quickly seeing benefits such as:

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Optimize Changeovers SMED has long been the gold standard for changeovers in the stamping industry. Let XL show you the fastest, slowest, and average coil changeover times, informing your team of aggressive but attainable targets.
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Easily Accessible Data Metal fabrication equipment is often inherently large and loud, making it difficult to convey production data on the plant floor without clearly visible KPIs. With Vorne XL’s integrated industrial plant floor scoreboards and detailed dashboards accessible over your network, you can easily manage every measured asset and identify issues in real time.
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Dimensional Data Stamping and pressing often require long production runs that span multiple shifts or even multiple days. Analyzing data by part, job, shift, or team over any period of time enables you to run comparative analyses or trend information over time to identify areas for improvement.
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Quality and Scrap Measurements Whether you manually track discrepant material or automate the trim or scrap produced, XL will provide insight into quality metrics such as quality loss percentage, rejects by reason, and quality lost time to quantify waste.
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Visual Timelines The ability to visually understand how your equipment transitionsbetween periods of run time (or running slow), unplanned downtime, coil changes or die changes, and even breaks, safety meetings, or startup events is critical to understanding where your production time is being allocated.

You're In Excellent Company

Vorne XL customers span across 45+ countries and are in virtually every industry - including many in metal stamping and pressing. Take a look at a sampling of manufacturers in your industry that have unlocked the benefits of XL to obtain accurate and actionable data, critical insights, and a foundation for their continuous improvement programs.

View a sampling of Vorne XL users in other industries

Learn More About Vorne XL

We would be happy to show you XL, deep dive into your challenges and your processes, and answer any questions you may have. We also offer free 90-day trials. In fact, we have completed thousands of successful XL trials. Did you know that 91.9% of companies that try XL buy XL?

Metrics, Dimensions, and Dashboards

Vorne XL delivers an incredible data foundation and the tools you need to effectively drive your continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, and digital transformation initiatives. With XL you get immediate access to over 100 highly accurate and actionable metrics and 20 data dimensions - in real time and for deep retrospective analysis through historical reporting. There are dozens of built-in reports and you can easily create your own reporting dashboards.

Screen capture from Vorne XL of a dashboard tailored to a metal stamping and pressing facility.

Vorne XL User Success Stories

XL helps manufacturers in almost every industry improve their process productivity. You will love our free support, free software updates, 3-year warranty, transparent pricing, fast implementation, and of course, the wealth of product features. That is why we have so many users who share their success stories.

M.H. Plant Manager Personal Care and Household ProductsAt Cosmetic Essence we have been aggressively working to improve our OEE and manufacturing efficiencies. So far this year, we have been able to achieve a 22% improvement in OEE, and Vorne XL has been an integral part of our improvement process. By knowing the status of all our lines in real-time, we can address problems in real-time. With XL, our entire team sees downtime, and eliminates downtime. We count on Vorne XL to show us what areas we need to address, and we take immediate action from there.

C.P. Lean Coordinator Global Aluminum Products ManufacturerWe absolutely love XL! We show our monthly goal and what has actually been produced. As a matter of fact, last month we beat our production goal. The Vorne display played a significant role in our ‘win’ because it helps us to keep everyone focused on what needs to be done. What a great tool!

R.K. Maintenance Supervisor Decorative Can and Tin ManufacturerThe results are amazing! We went from about eight thousand units a day to just over eleven thousand just by putting the displays up. That's an almost 30 percent increase in production and we've been able to sustain our gains. Everybody in the plant just loves the displays. Supervisors, managers and operators now have a great tool for monitoring the progress of the lines in real-time.

S.T. Plant Engineer International Glass Products ManufacturerThe Vorne displays definitely generate a competitive interest on the plant floor. Until we put the displays up it was not uncommon to see 160 minutes of shift downtime. Now that operators can see the downtime in real time it is down to just 10 or 12 minutes per shift. Also, one of our production shifts just broke the all-time run rate for the line.

W.M. Operations Manager Food Manufacturing PlantI've used Vorne XL in my last three roles and it has really made a difference. When I joined my last plant our OEE was 30%. Each month we picked a focus metric from the XL and trained the team on that metric. I showed everyone how it affected the line and then we worked together to drive up the number. We steadily improved, and when I left the plant our OEE was 74%!

T.M. Manufacturing Engineer Automotive Interior SupplierYour displays paid for themselves in just three days of production! We went from an average of 70% throughput to an amazing 98% in just a couple days. Now we finish every part that we make instead of burying pallet loads in the warehouse for fill in work. Seeing the target in giant numbers has helped everyone in the cell become involved in meeting our goals and has even improved morale.

D.G. Operations Manager Grain Milling and Packaging CompanyAfter we installed and deployed the Vorne XL Productivity Appliances we analyzed the data, and started understanding our underlying issues. We benchmarked our primary line and recorded an OEE Score of 45%. When we felt we had a good idea of what was going on, we started working to improve our productivity. We use OEE as the primary metric to gauge our progress. XL gave us the tools to track and eliminate our downtime, and improve our productivity. 10 weeks later we are hitting 60% OEE and still making improvements! Of our 10 best shifts of all time, 5 occurred in the last 30 days. Vorne XLs have been key to improving our productivity.

J.C. Engineering Manager Wheel and Drive ManufacturerI read every customer comment on your web site before I decided to try XL and have to admit that I simply didn't believe them. I never imagined that a product, company or support could be as good as people were saying. I am now a true believer and customer. You not only delivered all that you promised but even more. XL is simply an outstanding product. Not only is XL an outstanding product but your technical support is the best I've ever encountered!

A.C. Manufacturing Consultant Manufacturing Consulting FirmWhen we installed Vorne displays showing target and actual production rates, the target rate for one of the lines was inadvertently set higher than was planned. One of the engineers set the target rate to 180 pcs/min for a part that was scheduled for 140 pcs/min. A few hours later when the plant manager glanced at the display, he was amazed to see the actual performance at 178 pcs/min. The line was running at 127% of plan simply because the goal was there! The Vorne displays showed us that our team members can outperform our own expectations. After we started visual management using the Vorne displays, the lines are showing record productivity numbers.

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Metal Stamping and Pressing Specialties

Our XL Productivity Appliance, with its fully integrated OEE reporting system, works well across an extremely broad range of metal stamping and pressing industry specialties. Here are some of the more common specialty areas where XL is used:

Automated Stamping Equipment
Blanking and Piercing
Coil Feeding and Straightening
Coil Processing
Coil Slitting and Recoiling
Die Cutting
Die Maintenance and Changeovers
Fine Blanking
High-Speed Stamping Lines

Inspection and Quality Control
Integrated Stamping Lines
Material Handling and Conveying
Press Speed and Cycle Time Optimization
Progressive Stamping
Scrap Reduction
Servo Press Applications
Tooling Wear and Tear Monitoring
Transfer Presses

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