Our team of engineers and toolmakers will take your design from concept to series production.
The metal stamping process depends on precision-built tooling to deliver high-quality parts with consistency and efficiency. Accurate machining during tool construction ensures that every part meets tight tolerances, reducing waste and minimizing disruptions to your production line.
Quality is built into the stamping process from the start with expertly crafted dies. By investing in high-precision machining, we create tooling that exceeds the lifespan of your project. This durability translates to cost efficiency in mass production with minimal variation. With the right tooling, progressive stamping becomes a highly reliable and scalable solution for manufacturing complex stamped components.
Tight Tolerances
Engineering Support
Expert Toolmakers
Fast Turnaround
Lead Time Advantages
High-Volume Ready
Tooling Department
Our in-house tool room gives us the flexibility to respond quickly to design changes, ensuring seamless integration with production and engineering. This close collaboration enhances our ability to provide design for manufacture feedback and identify cost reduction opportunities. With engineering, tooling, and purchasing all under one roof, we ensure on-time delivery and rapid problem resolution.
Our tool room is powered by a world-class online die maintenance system, tracking die life and outstanding maintenance needs. This proactive approach minimizes downtime, reduces costs, and maximizes tooling longevity.
Capabilities
- Progressive Dies
- Line Dies
- Prototype Dies
Advantages
- Rapid response times for die repair and maintenance to minimize production delays.
- Seamless coordination between engineering and production for efficient workflow.
- Agility to meet short lead times for new tooling and design modifications.
Progressive Dies
We specialize in the design and manufacturing of progressive dies up to 96″ in length. Using industry-leading principles, we produce high-precision tools engineered for exceptional repeatability, tight tolerances, and durability—capable of running tens of millions of cycles.
Advancements in in-die sensing and controls enable our dies to produce high-quality parts at cost-efficient production rates while safeguarding against costly die crashes.
Capabilities
- Electronic die protection
- In-die tapping
- Hybrid progressive/transfer tooling
- Multi-cavity tooling
Advantages
- Unique solutions for challenging burr direction requirements.
- Minimizes secondary operations, reducing production time and costs.
- High efficiency and output, maximizing production rates.
- Long-lasting tooling life, designed for extended, high-volume use.
CNC Machining
Vertical Machining Centers play a crucial role in the production of progressive stamping dies by accurately producing critical die details in a cost effective manner. With multi-axis capabilities and high-speed tooling changes, VMCs enable the machining of complex details with tight tolerances, ensuring the consistent performance of the final tooling. Their versatility allows for milling, drilling, and contouring operations in a single setup, reducing lead times and improving overall manufacturing efficiency. Additionally, the rigid construction and advanced CNC control systems of modern VMCs enhance accuracy while minimizing tool wear, contributing to longer-lasting, high-performance stamping dies.
Capabilities
- Tolerances within a fraction of a millimeter
- Complex geometric shapes
- High-speed operation
Advantages
- Precision machining of die details directly from CAD data for exceptional accuracy.
- Capability to reproduce complex 3D surfaces with high levels of accuracy.
- Enhances efficiency by maximizing the output of skilled machinists.
Wire EDM
Wire EDM machines are essential in the production of stamping tooling, offering unmatched precision, flexibility, and efficiency. Using an electrically charged wire to accurately cut through hardened materials, Wire EDM can reduce the need for additional operations to produce ready to assemble tooling components. This cutting method allows for the creation of complex geometries, fine details, and sharp corners that would be difficult to achieve with conventional machining.
Common Types
- Precision cutting of hardened materials
- Ability to produce intricate geometries
- Machine blocks up to 16” thick
Advantages
- Enables complex tool designs that would be difficult or impossible with conventional machining.
- Reduces secondary finishing by producing smooth, burr-free edges.
- Shortens lead times for both production tooling and prototype components.
- Enhances tooling longevity by precisely machining components with minimal stress on the material.
Our tooling department supports the whole team.
Our in-house tooling department is the foundation of our manufacturing capabilities, supporting everything from prototyping to high-volume stamping. Their expertise enables us to make precise adjustments on short notice, ensuring flexibility while maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency for our clients.
Your schedule may change, but our on-time delivery rate doesn’t.
Our efficient changeover management practices allow us flexibility in responding to customer needs, while our longstanding supplier relationships ensure a steady supply of raw materials.
Improve your development cycle with detailed production feedback.
Ideas that look good on paper don’t always translate to manufacturable designs. Collaborate with our prototyping team to prepare your parts for production.
Consolidate your manufacturing needs through our partner network.
The relationships we’ve developed over the decades allow us to be the single point of contact for our customers while providing access to a range of secondary processing services.