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CUTTING DIES offer such training and information, get improvement and compatibility with new
Please maintain your cutting dies. They someone who does! and vintage converting machines.
require specific maintenance with proper This is one area in our manufacturing As always….Enjoy Your Job !!!
care. Please use the correct type of pull world that causes everyone excessive
band rubber, ejection rubber and support “unscheduled” downtime. If the cutting
rubber in all your cutting dies. Keep an dies are not accurately maintained, this will Dick Target, owner of “On Target
adequate inventory of the various types of be a cost that is very difficult to recover. Consultants” based in Lower
rubber on the floor next to your converting Gwynedd, Pa., has been in the
machines so your operators can make Please take the time and meet with your corrugated industry for over 4
corrections on the fly. management team, floor supervisors and decades.
critical suppliers. Improve your technical
Train your crews and keep them current relationship with them. He teaches Flexo and Die Cutter
on rubbering technology. Use your cutting Calibration “Short Courses” for
die supplier as a source of training and In future articles, I will discuss some TAPPI several times each year.
information for your crews. If they don’t easy to understand details on process
Dick Target also writes for
Corrugated Today and International
PaperBoard Magazines.

The Readers will recall that he is a
regular contributor to our magazine.

This article is printed in this issue
with the permission of the author.
He can be reached at:
dicktarget@gmail.com

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