Metal stamping for furniture is just one of the many manufacturing processes that takes place in order to create the furniture pieces we use every day. While metal stamping isn’t creating the parts most consumers would identify, it creates essential support components such as brackets, mounts, and other parts.
So why is metal stamping used to create consistent parts then? It ties back into the process itself, design considerations, and proper engineering throughout the manufacturing process.
Winco Stamping answers the question while highlighting key uses of furniture components created through metal stamping.
Why Metal Stamped Parts are Strong
Metal stamping for furniture leads to the manufacturing of strong parts and that’s the large goal since these components can be used in numerous applications such as joining structures together. In short, stamped components don’t only need to be strong, they simply are because of a few reasons.
Material selection being the first. There are several materials that can be used to create components such as cold-rolled steel, stainless steel, and aluminum that can withstand the necessary load management, corrosion exposure, and costs that furniture OEMs need from their components. Parts are also strong when designed and engineered to be so. This means creating shapes and geometries that maximize the highlights of a given material and use the weak points to their advantage.
Additionally, when integrated features such as holes, slots, or tabs are added into the material, it greatly reduces and in some cases eliminates weldments, loose fasteners, and tolerance stack-up.
Consistency in Furniture Components
Metal stamping for furniture creates consistent parts and that matters greatly in furniture applications. There needs to be predictability in the features of stamped components such as hole location, bend angle, part flatness, and interface dimensions. When predictability exists in these features, it leads to easier assembly operations once the stamped components leave the manufacturer’s facility and when variation is reduced, defects such as misalignment, rocking joints, and inconsistent load paths are avoided.
This is largely accomplished through consistent tooling operations, which controls and sets hole patterns and formed shapes, leading to stable assembly.
Design Considerations
When designing for furniture components such as brackets or mounts, it’s important to keep two aspects in mind – the manufacturing process itself and then part application. As far as the stamping process is concerned, this can include making notes on manufacturable bend radius, feature locations that are far enough away from bends to avoid distortion, and place stiffness where it matters rather than increasing material thickness.
When considerations are made for the manufacturing process, they are likely to hit the required specifications for the part’s application as well since metal stamping is intended to create consistent parts.
Part With Winco Stamping for Your Metal Stamping for Furniture Operations Today
Winco Stamping has served as a full-service custom metal stamping manufacturer since 1948, creating and introducing metal stamping components to OEMs, supplier programs, and other customer bases across the country.
Located in scenic Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, for nearly 80 years, our team has specialized in low to medium volume metal stamping operations for numerous industries, including components used in the furniture industry. Our process, backed by in-house tooling capabilities and several value-added services, creates the essential components that many pieces of furniture need to be considered complete.
Quality is always at the forefront of everything Winco does and our longstanding ISO 9001 certification proves our commitment to maintaining the highest levels of quality management systems.
Considering metal stamping for furniture components? Contact the experts at Winco Stamping today.