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Modern industrial technologies continue to seek new materials and processes to produce products that meet design and functional requirements. Sheet materials made from ferrous and non-ferrous metals, laminates, composites, and reinforced plastics constitute a large percentage of today’s products, components, and systems. Major manufacturers of sheet products include automotive, aerospace, appliance, and food-packaging industries. The Second Global Symposium on Innovations in Materials Processing & Manufacturing: Sheet Materials is organized to provide a forum for presenting advances in sheet processing and manufacturing by worldwide researchers and engineers from industrial, research, and academic centers. The symposium, sponsored by the TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD), was planned for the 2001 TMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 11–15, 2001. This article is a review of key papers submitted for publication in the concurrent volume. The selected papers present significant developments in the rapidly expanding areas of advanced sheet materials, innovative forming methods, industrial applications, primary and secondary processing, composite processing, and numerical modeling of manufacturing processes.
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For more information, contact M.Y. Demeri, Ford Motor Company, 20000 Rotunda Drive, MD 3135, Dearborn, Michigan 48121-2053; (313) 845-6092; fax (313) 390-0514; e-mail mdemeri@ford.com.
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Demeri, M.Y. Key technologies for manufacturing and processing sheet materials: A global perspective. JOM 53, 33–36 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-001-0117-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-001-0117-5