Proper tooling design often depends on your metal-stamped part design featuring tolerances that don’t require tooling services. However, for certain applications and uses, this can be unavoidable.
If you need tooling services, there are ways to make it a cost-effective and smooth process by having key strategies in place.
Winco Stamping lays out its tooling design guide, where your product can be enhanced to specification without driving up your budget.
Focus on Design
Tight tolerances are one of the main reasons why tooling services have to be performed on metal-stamped parts.
Designing for manufacturability is one way to enhance your tooling services while keeping costs at a minimum. Keep the geometries of your design as simple as possible, standardize parts across assemblies, and avoid unnecessary shapes in order to make dies less complex
Search for Manufacturers with In-House Tooling Design Capabilities
Tooling costs can rise quickly without proper attention to detail. An easy way to make it a more cost-effective service is by finding a manufacturer that offers in-house tooling services.
When metal stamping and tooling are performed under the same roof, you save on shipping and speed up production.
Winco Stampings’ in-house tooling capabilities are second to none. With part number dedicated tooling, quick tool change, and wire EDM robots with 24/7 capabilities, we focus on keeping costs down and quality high.
Be Aware of Material Selection
Material selection is one of the biggest cost drivers for tooling services, as different materials impact cost differently. While materials are chosen based upon product application, your tooling costs are minimalized when you select the proper material for your products application.
A great way to further help with tooling costs as it relates to material selection is by optimizing material thickness. This drives down costs because the amount of force and energy required to perform tooling services are decreased when material thickness is accurate.
Advanced Tooling Procedures
Advanced tooling procedures, while sounding cost heavy, don’t have to impact design features or budgets on customers. The latest technology makes the tooling process easier, more efficient, and is increasingly optimized in getting tooling services performed in a quicker manner.
- Automation and robotics
- Programmable wire EDM machines
- Advanced CAD programming can predetermine the amount of material necessary to create a metal stamped part along with potential waste after tooling procedures.
Contact Winco Stamping for Your Tooling Design Today
Winco Stamping is an industry leader in various sectors of metal stamping, with secondary services that are second to none. We proudly offer in-house tooling capabilities that are designed to enhance your part while keeping costs at a minimum.
Part of our in-house tooling services include supplying you with five samples of your tooled product at no cost to you. We believe if we’re going to do a job, it needs to be done right and before we get started on a big project, we want to know you’re satisfied with the end result ahead of time.
Contact us today to learn more about our capabilities — including tooling services — and how we can serve you.
