The Wire Association International, Inc.

This video (9:01) addresses surface abrasion to rod and wire products that can lead to breaks in drawing, rolling, or forming. Insteel metallurgist Chris Reeve details various potential causes of abrasions, and offers remedies to avoid these potentially damaging scenarios.

Don Young returns to WAI HardWired to explain how the measurements are taken and what adjustments can be made to the die box to change cast and helix on a standard draw block.

This video (8:12) details various methods and tools for mitigating hand injuries at General Cable Corporation’s plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Part 1 describes precautions in areas that include reel changing, welding, sample cutting, and insulation stripping.

Esteemed industry experts Don Young and Tom Maxwell discuss the importance of having proper die angles in steep taper drafting. This video (5:47) offers some tips for finding the right contact points to prolong die life and maintain product quality.

Drawing expert Don Young explains how to determine what a bull block can actually pull. This video shows how to calculate not only what a given block is capable of, but also what die pull is needed to achieve a desired finish size.

The second part of a two-part series, this video explores more ways to mitigate hand injuries at General Cable Corporation’s plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Part 2 describes safe approaches to shipping and packaging, cable cutting, and coil and reel handling.

David Gzesh of Blachford Corporation offers tips for monitoring and maintenance of dry powder lubricant for ferrous applications. In this video, he addresses factors that change the lube composition in the soap box along with issues affecting lubricant flow.

This annealing video addresses principles that apply to both ferrous and nonferrous materials, with an emphasis on copper conductors. Dr. Horace Pops discusses property changes during annealing, impurities, and the issues that chemical analysis can often overlook.

Part 2 of this two-part series on maintenance of lubricants focuses on lube controls in wet drawing applications. David Gzesh of Blachford Corporation returns with advice on tests for concentration, pH, conductivity, and microbes.

The second part of a two-part series, this video discusses continuous online strand annealing. Dr. Horace Pops returns to examine the effects of time and temperature on final properties.

In this first of two videos, Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies details the stages for building intelligence into a system, and describes the potential for Industry 4.0 to improve production, increase efficiency, and eliminate waste.

This first part of two videos examines five of the top ten violations most frequently cited by OSHA in spring and wire product manufacturing. OSHA safety consultant Greg Sipos breaks down topics like guarding and lockout/tagout to explain how each can be corrected.