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From a Dream to Reality...
Let us take your ideas and transform them into a working product
that can be fabricated at minimum cost.
Design Concept
You may have just an idea or
a completed design. Whatever the case we can help to insure that the
design is best suited for the metal stamping process. Unless the part
was designed by someone familiar with metal stamping processes, there
may be areas of the design where cost and quality improvements can be
made. We don't look to re-engineer your part, but to make it 'stamping
friendly'
Prototype Development
Prototype development is an important part of the design process where
significant savings can be realized.
Permanent tooling is
costly and you do not need the added cost of making modifications to the
tooling when it could have been resolved during the design process. A
rather small change to a part does not always mean a small change to the
tooling. It could require changes to multiple stations in
progressive die or even additional stations.
Tooling Design and Fabrication
Once through the prototype stages we set
up a Design Project Plan which is used to set the timeline for the
various design and fabrication activities. Through the use of this
timeline it is easier for our customers to follow our progress during
the building of tools.
The initial stages of tool design involve
all the various departments that will be involved with tool fabrication
right through to delivering a finished product. The tool design, quality
considerations, manufacturing, and packaging are all thought through to
reduce the likelihood of problems later on.
Being quality conscious through the
entire process we design the tooling to be cost effective, while
implementing features to make quality critical areas easily maintained,
often allowing adjustments and repairs in the press, reducing costly
downtime.
Backed by Experience
Benefit from over twenty-five years of experience in
metal stamping and coining. We have developed many unique methods for stamping and coining
over the years which have led to cost savings to our customers.
Our engineering department uses
Pro Engineer,
Cadkey and
Mastercam software for design work. This state of the art software allows
us to design parts and tooling more efficiently and since many customer use it themselves,
files can be electronically swapped via email to eliminate the time lost in the mail
or fuzzy faxes. They can import a variety of file formats so even if you may not have
Pro-E or Cadkey yourself, you can still send files to us.
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