Tooling is one of the more expensive aspects of a manufacturing process, so finding not only the right manufacturer, but a manufacturer that offers in-house tooling capabilities is paramount to the customer experience.
In-house tooling offers numerous benefits that directly impact both the customer, their customers, and subsequently, the manufacturer.
Learn about these benefits from Winco Stamping.
Main Benefits of In-House Tooling Manufacturers
Sometimes in manufacturing, benefits of a service are only one-sided affairs. But when it comes to a partnership with an in-house tooling manufacturer, the relationship positively impacts everyone.
For starters, customers can expect faster launches as tooling changes, repairs of dies, and problem solving can all happen in real time as the need for response from an outside vendor is eliminated. Additionally, more consistent quality and quality control exists because the same team responsible for your metal stampings handles your tooling services. Part design, tool performance, and production output all happen with ease.
When in-house tooling services happen, customers experience lower total costs because they don’t need an outside vendor. While tooling costs drop considerably, there are also less logistics costs, less downtime, and scrap material is reduced saving on material costs as well.
Engineering teams have the full scope of design work from the dies to the finished product, so design optimization can happen more thoroughly and at a higher level.
Why Partnerships Matter
Partnerships in manufacturing matter for many reasons beyond a mere business transaction. Tooling is truly the foundation for a metal stamping project, where repeatability is critical. Especially in progressive production runs where hundreds of thousands, even millions, of parts are created in a single run. A partnership with the right manufacturer offering in-house tooling services not only can create the dies you need, but build trust that they’re able to get the job done time and time again while creating high quality parts that you and your customers will love.
Winco Stamping’s In-House Tooling Capabilities Are a True Differentiator – Contact Our Team Today
Winco Stamping has continually progressed in the metal stamping industry since our doors opened in 1948 because of our consistent ability to better our capabilities and improve our processes to best serve our customers’ needs.
Part of that improvement is noted in our in-house tooling capabilities. When it comes to our specialty, short to medium production runs, our in-house tooling offers unheard of benefits for our customers. We supply all our tooling customers with five raw samples of our tooling, at no charge. And if we miss our promised delivery date, the tooling fee is on us too. Not only can we handle short to medium volume production runs, but we also have progressive tooling capabilities in house to handle millions of parts.
And with our ISO 9001 certification, our customers know to expect quality every time they partner with us.
Contact Winco Stamping for more information on our tooling procedures and discover how we can be the in-house tooling manufacturer for your metal stamping needs.
