Swaging
Industries & Applications
Metallurgy
Bead History
Work Acronyms
100
An environmentally-friendly benefit of swaging, this is reduced by forming the metal into a tube rather than stamping it.
What is scrap?
100
This industry requires components that are designed to withstand harsh, high-vibration environments.
What is the automotive industry?
100
Copper mixed with this element makes Brass, a base metal alloy used in many of Bead's contact pins.
What is Zinc?
100
Although they went by Calvin, Gerald and Dexter, the first three generations of Bryants all shared the same first name.
What is Waldo?
100
This phrase is often used when a supervisor needs something done immediately.
What is ASAP?
200
This funnel-shaped die preceeds the swaging die on Bead's machines.
What is the draw die?
200
Despite Bead's lack of a "clean room" within the factory, it still manufactures some components for this industry?
What is the medical (or healthcare) industry?
200
This process, used on Bead's tooling dies, involves the use of heating or cooling, usually to extreme temperatures, to achieve a desired result such as hardening or softening of a material.
What is heat treating or annealing?
200
Bead formed a joint venture with this ball chain-producing company in 1979, located in the UK.
What is Sturge?
200
This is the certification that outlines the requirements an organization must maintain in their quality system.
What is ISO?
300
Unlike swaging, this common, metal forming process, also known as pressing, is more expensive because of the scrap generated.
What is stamping?
300
This machine, located in the electronic assembly department, eliminates the customer's need to purchase complete connectors.
What is a pin insertion machine?
300
This process, no longer performed "in-house", is done to contact pins for a number of reasons such as, improving solderability or conductivity, increasing durability, or reducing friction.
What is plating?
300
Waldo Gerald Bryant was a graduate of this ivy-league college?
What is Yale?
300
This type of software is used in manufacturing to create two- or three-dimensional graphical representations of physical objects.
What is CAD (Computer-aided Design)?
400
Numerous variations, or features, can by incorporated into the pin during the swaging process. Name one.
What are Collars, Stars, Flanges, Holes, Tapered Ends, Barbs, Flat Cuts, Saw Slots, Flared Ends, Neck and Opened Ends, Ears, Reduced Tips, Serrations, Grooves...
400
In the lighting industry, this type of lighting is replacing incandescent lighting because of its energy efficiency and long lifespan. Bead's pins are in both.
What is LED?
400
This contact pin, patented by Bead in 2008, requires only a doughnut of solder, reduces the amount of solder needed by as much as 33%.
What is the True Grip pin?
400
During this decade, Bead's Electronic division began producing contact pins for fluorescent lamps.
What is the 1930's?
400
This is a standardized process in the automotive and aerospace industries that helps manufacturers and suppliers communicate and approve production designs and processes before, during, and after manufacture.
What is PPAP (Production Part Approval Process)?
500
Swaging is one method of this process, which forges metals at near room temperatures at a high speed and high pressure, which increases tensile strength.
What is cold-forming?
500
This type of Bead application, used in the Telecom industry, eliminates the use of connectors.
What are wire-wrap pins?
500
This regulation was enacted in 2006 and requires that no lead be added intentionally and that the maximum percentage not exceed 1%.
What is RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances)
500
The year Westinghouse Electric purchased controlling interest in Bryant Electric Co.?
What is 1901?
500
This commonly used manufacturing term, referring to a list of parts or items that make up a product assembly, should never be shouted on an airplane.
What is a BOM (Bill-of-Materials)?
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