Tooling operations often go hand-in-hand with metal stamping manufacturing services. In conversations between manufacturers and customers, you’ll learn where metal stamping tooling solutions make the most sense for your project.
Easily identify these criteria prior to partnering with a manufacturing company by viewing Winco Stamping’s guide, and utilize these points to determine if tooling solutions are right for your project.
When Tooling Makes Sense
Metal stamping tooling solutions are often used in these four circumstances.
- If your project requires high volumes where progressive die stamping services are needed to fulfill your order, tooling solutions should be used. Here,, the cost-per-part ratio drives down the initial tooling costs, making hundreds of thousands of parts, even millions of parts, much more cost-effective and easily achievable. This also rings true if your volume continues to increase.
- When your team has a stable design, tooling should be considered to lock in the specific die or dies that can be used over long periods of time.
- Parts that contain repeatable features, tight tolerances, or require multiple operations should utilize tooling procedures.
- If speed is of the essence, tooling solutions allow for the automation of metal stamping to create parts faster since the die can be repeatedly used.
The Economics of Metal Stamping Tooling Solutions
While tooling services are effective for any metal stamping operation, there is no way to hide the high upfront costs associated with them. Numerous factors drive the costs associated with tooling, including complex engineering, materials used in tooling, initial setup, precision and customization, and regularly scheduled maintenance.
These are factors that OEMs and other customers relying on metal stamping services have to weigh when considering tooling solutions. But there is a payoff. The cost-per-part ratio decreases as the volume of stamped parts increases, and over time, the upfront costs of tooling can be offset. Additionally, if dies are well-manufactured and maintained, tooling services can further drive down cost-per-part, as the service life of a die can last several manufacturing cycles.
Practical Example
Some of the most highly repeatable metal stamped parts include brackets that work for numerous applications across several industries. Designs for brackets feature minimal, if any, changes and are typically a high-volume operation.
This makes it a likely option to take advantage of metal stamping tooling solutions through progressive die operations. Multiple forms of stamping are combined into a single process, and with strong tooling and die supports, the hundreds of thousands produced in a single production run can offset tooling costs in an initial cycle. Additionally, the die used in the first production cycle can be repeatedly used over several years with proper maintenance.
Benefits of Tooling Services With Winco
Winco Stamping offers in-house tooling services to all of our customers, no matter if it’s our first project together or we’ve been partners for years. Our in-house tooling services offer these benefits, all geared toward making the tooling experience smooth and easily attainable.
- Part numbered dedicated tooling
- Programmable wire EDM
- Low-cost
- Quick tool change
- In-house tool room
- 24/7 capabilities
- Single set up (progressive tooling)
- Five raw tooling samples for free
- Covered tooling maintenance
Partner With Winco Stamping for Metal Stamping Tooling Solutions
Winco Stamping is proud to offer metal stamping tooling solutions, completely in-house. Our in-house capabilities mean our customers save big on costs, knowing that our team is responsible for both tooling and stamping operations. This saves our customers on costs associated with a third-party vendor and promotes product quality and consistency.
Our long-standing ISO 9001 certificate highlights our commitment to superior quality management practices, and our customers know their parts are going to serve as designed.
Contact Winco today for more information on tooling solutions and discover the difference we can make in your next project.
