Application playbook — forge dies, stamping, plastic molds, gears, extrusion

Five tool classes, five different recipes: typical steel, target case depth, target compound layer, preferred process, and the failure mode each recipe is designed to defend against.

11 min readLesson 9 of 12

Each tool class has a distinct service environment, a distinct failure mode, and a recipe built around defending against that specific failure mode. Same word "nitriding" on the PO, five different jobs underneath it.