Appliance Maker Follows a Trusted Quick-Die-Change Recipe.

The largest new-appliance rollout in the history of Sub-Zero and Wolf Appliance has the firm’s pressroom and die shop on their toes. Read here of its tried and tested diechange system that keeps six hydraulic presses and three mechanicals running full speed ahead.

In 2007, the 30,000-sq.-ft. pressroom at the Sub-Zero and Wolf manufacturing plant in Fitchburg, WI, nearly doubled in production capacity. Welcomed that year: three Williams, White & Co. hydraulic presses (a 400-ton model and two 600-ton models), and a 600-ton Minster mechanical press with coil-feed line. It added the presses to support new-product introductions and to bring inhouse previously outsourced stamping work. “Those pressroom investments really strengthened our core competency in stamping and tool and die work,” says Jeff Soule, fabrication supervisor for the manufacturing facility.

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