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Why Metal Stampings?
Metal stampings consistently provide manufacturers with lower cost alternatives to high cost processes such as sheet metal fabrication and machining. Tooling design allows multiple metal forming operations to be combined in repetitive processes reducing both labor and material costs for metal parts. Metal parts traditionally produced by casting or machining can often be produced far less expensively with modern stamping technology
An example:
This part started as a CNC machined assembly of three separate components welded together
It was reduced to one machined part and a stamped component reducing labor costs
It was then completely produced as a one piece stamping using progressive tooling
Stamping technology and expert tool design can also reduce the complexity of parts by combining separate assembled stamped parts into one fully finished part.
This part was formerly three separate stamped parts which then required a labor intensive assembly operation. Expert tool design allowed the three parts to be combined into one.
The key is in the tooling - whether stage tooling or progressive tooling. Normal metal fabrication is very costly in terms of labor. Manufacturing operations are completed one at a time serially. With metal stamping operations are routinely combined in the tooling (blank, pierce, form, etc...) to reduce labor and material movements.
For part design considerations, to see why metal stamping is a superior solution, please refer to the following pages:
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