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Handbook of DIE Design

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Having designed and built automated production machinery at my own company for some years now, I thought I'd get a more formal reference for our next round of die designs which were to be a little more challenging. This book provided no value whatsoever. At first it seemed that the problem might simply be that the writer is not a native English speaker, as is obvious. Further reading showed, however, that the concepts and diagrams really *were* as disorganized and as nearly content-free as they appeared. The editor(s) of the book also seem to have had almost no technical knowledge themselves and so were unaware of the silliness they were trying to shape into semi-readable language. I have physically discarded this book (it is not worth shelf space) and have ordered the Die handbook published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) of which I'm a senior member. The only reason I didn't get the SME book in the first place was that the lead time was several weeks, while the Suchy book was readily available.

I have been working as a Die Designer for about 2 years and previously studied Tool and Die Technology for 3 years. When I first forked out my hard saved allowance to buy this book, I could not understand it. So I got the Die Design Handbook from SME and several other thinner and easier to understand books. When my understanding of Tool and Die Imporoved, I soon realised that this book is just plain lousy. Its confusing and offers practically no useful information. I would not recommend this book to anybody. There are many other better books that are out there. AMADA, the company that makes press machines also has a very well written book that is good for the student wanting to learn more.

whith this price i expected more detail,more clear tables and much more a HANDBOOK whith answers and details of stations and calculation. its look like he tooks some tables frome another book and put alot of words to fill the book

Not only does Ivana Suchy's book have the technical accuracy and detail that a good die design book should have, it reads well, with many graphs and pictures to illustrate the evasive points of this complex subject.

"Quite possibly the best, most all-encompassing reference manual on the subject, Die Design is a book I refer to every day on the job".