A Manufacturing Engineer Is Considering Purchase of a Mechanical, Full

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Essay

A manufacturing engineer is considering purchase of a mechanical, full revolution, punch press for a high-efficiency workstation. You are asked to compute an appropriate safety distance for a two-hand trip safeguarding device for this machine.

a. What additional design specifications for this machine would you need before responding to the manufacturing engineer's problem?

b. What would be your response? (You may assume any arbitrary value(s) for data you listed in part (a) above as necessary to solve this problem.)

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