| IADD publications provide you with tools you need to compete in the fast-paced, high-tech environment of the converting industry and they are one of the best sources of information because they are written specifically for our industry, by industry experts. From our monthly magazine, The Cutting Edge, to the Recommended Specifications and Standards book to our expanding library of Tech Notes, Tech Tips, and DVDS, the IADD can keep you current on trends and developments that help you run your business more profitably. Select the IADD publications you need to help improve your business from the following list:
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Safety Guide - helps small to mid-sized diecutters and diemakers develop a systematic approach to safety. Includes common sense strategies, regulatory
requirements and samples of proven policies and procedures. (216 pages)
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Recommended
Specifications & Standards - specifications and processes used in the diecutting and diemaking industry. General information, definitions and articles on rule, punches, counter plates, cutting plates, ejection material, dieboard, automatic rule bending machines, rotary diecutting, plotters, lasers, etc. (160
pages)
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The Cutting Edge - monthly magazine keeps you up-to-date on technical advancements, new products, local and international activities and government issues that affect your success and profitability. (40+ pages) Annual
subscription (12 issues).
ORDER FORMS *Each Patron, Company, Affiliate, Associate, Individual and Alumni IADD member receives The Cutting Edge as a member benefit. |
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Membership & Resource Directory - annually updated listing of IADD members: alphabetic, geographic, email, products and services. (300+ pages)
Available to IADD members only
ORDER FORMS *Each Patron, Company, Affiliate, Associate, Individual and Alumni IADD member receives the Membership and Resource Directory as a member benefit. IADD Members may purchase additional copies. Not available to IADD non-members. |
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International Manufacturers and Distributors of Flatbed Multi-Contour
and Rotary Die Cutting Systems - resource guide listing manufacturers of 47 different types of diecutting press systems, ancillary products and equipment
and contact information on almost 500 companies worldwide. (96 pages)
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International Associations. Federations, Institutes and Societies - resource guide listing over 350 organizations that represent over 70 industries in 75 countries that are involved with diecutting or converting. (70 pages)
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ANSI
Standard DDES3 - the American National Standard (ANSI® IT8.6-2002) for data communication between CAD/CAM systems and machine interfaces. Establishes a data exchange format to enable transfer of numerical control information between
diecutting systems and between diecutting systems and electronic prepress systems. Distributed electonically. (PDF file)
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Training Guide for Bending Steel Rule - Reduces the initial training cost and time required to train a beginning diemaker. Contains eight chapters
of instructions, an 18" x 20" laser cut dieboard with 25 practice figures,
a vinyl overlay and a fully dimensioned and annotated drawing (60+ pages)
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Tech Notes: How to Calibrate the Platen Press for Optimal Diecutting Performance - the footprinting process is explained in detail, including a complete list of tools and materials required and step-by-step standard operating procedures. (25
pages)
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Tech Notes: How to Eliminate Flaking in Platen Diecutting - describes flaking, how platen diecutting works, pinpoints sources of flaking and identifies
solutions to these problems. (33 pages)
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Tech Notes: How to Eliminate
Dust and Loose Fiber in Platen Diecutting - defines dust and loose fiber, describes how platen diecutting works,
indentifies
sources
of
dust and loose fiber
and
presents
solutions to these problems. (57 pages)
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Tech Notes: How to Crease and Fold Paperboard & Fluted Material, to Eliminate Problems, Forever! - comprehensive manual covering all aspects of creasing and folding including traditional and reduced bead creasing, different techniques for fluted and paperboard and keys to optimal crease formation. (162 pages)
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Tech Notes: The ABC's of Fast Diecutting Press Changeover - comprehensive step-by-step manual provides the framework for implementing fast, consistent and effective changeover in platen diecutting. Problem solving guide Illustrates key elements of platen diecutting and 25 key organization tools. (324 pages)
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Tech Notes: The ABC’s of Setting, Controlling & Adjusting
Folding & Opening Force -
a pictorial, step-by-step training program, which
is designed to teach the specification and design of using the Compound Creasing
Technique, in conjunction with the Reduced Bead Discipline, to set and control
Folding Resistance and Opening or Springback Forces. (28 pages)
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How to Optimize Productive Output and Process
Improvement in Diecutting Converting - provides a detailed analysis
for a highly innovative and productivity proven option for the layout of
the press room, to maximize teamwork and training, to optimize performance
and productivity; and to reduce manpower and operating costs. (10 pages)
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Designing and Fabricating Press Calibration Mapping
Tools - provides a detailed analysis for the key principles and
most effective practices in designing and fabricating press mapping tools
to be used in the press calibration discipline. A vital and important training
guide. (8 pages)
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The ABC Diemaking & Diecutting Training Guide
- Vol. 1 (12 Issues) -
nearly 100 pages of helpful tips and tricks you can use every day. Includes
such topics as: "How to Optimize Productive Output in Platen Diecutting;"
"How to Optimize Scoring Performance;" "Curved Rule Grinding;" "Reinforcing
a Miter Joint" and much more. (99 pages)
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Key Practice, of Steel Rule Die Pressure Balancing -
provides a detailed analysis for one of the most important, but poorly understood
and ineffectively steel rule die pressure balancing technique. This is a
critical but missing skill in diemaking and in diecutting. (8 pages)
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Tech Notes: The ABC’s of Specifying and
Designing innovative Reduced Bead Creasing - detailed analysis
for key principles and most effective practices in designing and applying
innovative Reduced Bead Creasing, to generate optimal and consistent creasing
and folding performance, every time. A vital and important guide.
(21 pages)
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Using an alternative Score-Fold rather than
a Crease-Fold - provides a detailed analysis to significantly improving
the technique of scoring in diecutting, and the substitution for a Score-Fold
for a Crease-Fold. (6 pages)
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Tech Notes: The ABC’s of Implementing Fast
Press Changeover using the SMED Discipline - a pictorial, step-by-step
training program, designed to form a plan-of-action to achieve and
to sustain Fast Press Changeover, and Optimal Productive Output in Platen
Diecutting. (54 pages)
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Tech
Tips: Soft Anvil Rotary Stripping Fundamentals - illustrates the fundamentals of removing scrap from product during the diecutting process. Explains how ejection material, rule bevel, scrapping knife placement and scrap size affect ejection.
(10 pages)
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Tech Tips: Corruaged Structural Design Fundamentals - illustrates the fundamentals of structural design that can impact the performance of the diecutting
equipment and quality of the finished product. (10 pages)
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Tech Tips: Soft Anvil Rotary Accuracy Fundamentals - illustrates the variables in the rotary diecutting process that can affect the accuracy of the finished product and methods to better control these variables. (12 pages)
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Tech Tips: Corrugated Substrate Fundamentals - get higher quality, more consistent results by better understanding the characteristics of the substate you convert. (12 pages)
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For DVD program details, click image above.ORDER FORMS |
These
DVDs are the perfect way for you or your employees to enrich their knowledge – at your pace, on your schedule. Taped on-site
with participation by real diemakers and converters, these programs offer real-world, proven solutions to the kinds of problems
you face every day. Choose from ten different programs:
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