Close the Loop 2002 Technical Symposium Proceedings CD-ROM
The SMI Close the Loop Technical Symposium is an industry-wide program highlighting practical applications and best-practice solutions to technical and process challenges in springmaking. Presentations illustrate the results of applying experience, knowledge and state-of the-art-technology to real-world issues.

The Proceedings CD-ROM includes all the information presented during the 2002 Symposium sessions. As a bonus, the Proceedings from the 2001 Symposium are included, so you get all 30 papers from the 2002 and 2001 SMI Close the Loop Technical Symposiums on one convenient, self-loading CD-ROM. View or print each paper with Adobe Acrobat, which loads automatically upon installation of the CD.

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Close the Loop 2002
Technical Symposium Proceedings CD-ROM
Table of Contents and Bonus Papers
2002 Proceedings Table of Contents:
01 Advanced Software for High-Tech Wire-Working Equipment
Thomas Blum

02 Grinding Tight-Tolerance Springs - Your Chances of Success
Rick Schultz and John Moyer

03 CNC Coiling Machines of Today And Tomorrow
Guiseppe Boschiero

04 The Effects of Wheel Tilt and Grinding Path on Ground Spring Quality and Productivity
Keith Manners and John Mahler

05 CNC Springmaking Machines – Latest Trends in Design
Ichiro Itaya

06 Disc Grinding and the Spring Industy
Jim Koch

07 Machine Guarding
Jim Wood

08 CNC Spring Coilers and Software Productivity
Paul Tomasik

09 Quality in Spring Coiling and Spring End Grinding
Hermann Gächter

10 Factors Relating to the Wire Straightening Process – Process and Peripherals
Marcus Paech

11 Advances in High-Speed Stress Relief
Mario Grenier

12 Eddy Current Testing of Spring Wire
Brian Roberts

13 Advances in Rapid Heating
Daniel Pierre

14 Processing Effects on Residual Stress
Robert Stone

15 Material Properties and Relaxation Behavior of Scherdel LP Hard-drawn Spring Steel Wire
J. Heinke, M. Kraß and G. Barthold

16 Dynamic Measurement of Helical Springs
Yuyi Lin

17 High-Speed Spring Coiling on CNC Equipment
Jack Henne

18 Spring Relaxation
Malcolm Southward

19 Fatigue Life Estimates Using Goodman Diagrams
Robert Stone

20 Impact of ISO 9000:2000 on Quality and Reliability
Jit Lodd

Bonus Papers from the 2001 Symposium
B01 Computer Application During Helical Compression Die Spring Design and Development
Alexander Liebman

B02 Springprocessor – Milestone in Computing Springs
Derk Micke, Hans-Jürgen Schorcht and Ulf Kletzin

B03 Reaching for New Horizons With Induction Technology
Anand W. Bhagwat and Thomas A. Kellogg

B04 Manufacturing Shaped Wire
Bruce Conrad

B05 Effects of Various Shot Peening Conditions on Fatigue Strength
Kanehisa Hattori, Yoshihiro Watanabe and Norihiko Hasegawa

B06 Testing of Torsion Springs
Charles Pepka

B07 Increasing the Reliability of Heavy-Duty and Safety Parts Through an Improved Induction-Process Development
Anatoly Khersonsky and Ronald R. Akers

B08 The Electron Microscope in the Analysis of Spring Fractures and Surface Characteristics
Steven E. Wall

B09 TS-16949: An Exercise in Implementation
Tony Perkins and Mike Zawacki

B10 Embrittlement of Springs
Mark Hayes