Dies are still the most common device used to cast, punch, and form parts in manufacturing and machining. Filled with charts that help assure precise design, this guide provides all major formulas, calculations, cost estimating techniques, and safety procedures needed for specific die operations and performance evaluations. Users learn the hows and whys of process analysis, product design, metal movements, materials, and proven die design for every class of sheet metal pressworking. Theyre shown how to determine the cost of materials, purchase parts and supplies meet quantitative demands while controlling costs and assuring quality, eliminate secondary operations, evaluate new designs, improve blanking, piercing, bending, and form operations.