Piab friction cups stamp out almost 700,000 more parts Background At one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers, this was on one of the customer's stamping lines (# 6). The automotive aluminum stamping line was running a cross-bar press picking up and placing inner hatch and outer hatch parts. The customer was using competitive suction cups, along with some other units. The competitive cups were dropping sections of the stamped aluminum sheets as they go down the stamping line reducing strokes-per-minute (SPM) output. The customer was looking to retrofit a press (# 6) which is currently running about 10 SPM and customer needed at least 11 SPM. The cross bar press is capable of 13 SPM. Solution A meeting was set with process engineers to understand how to address the problems of pa

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