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Published On: Fri, Apr 28th, 2017

The Advantages and Possible Disadvantages of Metal Stamping

As you are about to learn, there are some major advantages to using metal stamping over cutting or other potential options.

And just like with anything else in this life, according to some people there might be some disadvantages to going with metal stamping as well.

Today, we’ll do our best to take a serious look at both the advantages and disadvantages that metal stamping has to offer.

By the time you’re through, you’ll know if this is the manufacturing process that you’ll want to choose for your business or not.

It’s really up to you.

photo/ Hans Braxmeier

We’re just going to provide as much information as we can to help you make the ultimate determination about the application of precision stamping once and for all.

  1. Precision Metal Stamping Is Ideal for Manufacturing Large Quantities of Products

As you are about to learn, precision metal stamping is the perfect way to manufacture large quantities of products.

Why?

Well, for starters, it’s absolutely the most cost effective solution currently available today.

And since price is always an obstacle during the manufacturing process, it obviously makes a great deal of sense to keep your expenses as low as possible.

By cutting down on manufacturing costs, you’re going to save a great deal of money, and it will be easier to compete if you can lower the cost of your products without taking a beating on percentage gains.

Not only that, but the metal stamping process is specifically designed to help improve production on large, high-volume fabrication runs.

According to Weiss-Aug, precision metal stamping experts, “Our stamping philosophies have also earned us high supplier ratings with both automotive and medical customers…”

Ultimately, this means that the precision metal stamping process is highly respected by the medical world and automotive industries.

  1. Metal Stamping Is a Highly Automated Process

When you are doing a large production run of tens or even hundreds of thousands of parts at the same time, your process needs to be as automated as possible in order to get the job done.This might not be so important when you need a few Azazie dresses  for your wedding, but when you need high volume, you need to do all you can to balance cost, quality, and volume.

Metal stamping makes it very easy to do serious high-volume work because of the automation that the process entails.

Not only is this process highly automated, but it also has the ability to take advantage of incorporating secondary operations.

Some secondary operations include in die welding, in die tapping, and automatic nut or stud insertion.

Why are the secondary operations important?

Well, they will help increase the overall value of the parts. And when your parts are more valuable, they are certainly going to be worth a lot more money.

  1. Precision Stamping Makes It Possible to Create Innovative Designs and Complex Products

The best thing about metal stamping is the fact that it’s one of the most precise ways to produce products of this nature.

When compared to fabrication techniques, it’s far superior because of the material flow or drawing benefits, the tight tolerances, and much more.

The Potential Disadvantages of Metal Stamping

To be fair, we would like to provide you with some potential disadvantages that you might experience during the metal stamping process.

They include things like: upfront tooling costs make short production runs ineffective and expensive, longer lead times are necessary because it’s needed to help develop the tooling, and other costs and difficulty is incurred if design changes are necessary.

Remember, hard tooling is very inflexible, so if design changes need to be made while the production process is already underway, it’s going to be difficult and it’s definitely going to cost additional money.

Conclusion

As you can see, there are many advantages to precision metal stamping. And in certain instances, there are disadvantages as well.

Keep them in mind as you decide whether or not metal stamping is the right process to meet your needs.

Author Bio:

Pat Sava is a super-connector with OutreachMama who helps businesses find their audience online through outreach, partnerships, and networking. He frequently writes about the latest advancements in digital marketing and focuses his efforts on developing customized blogger outreach plans depending on the industry and competition.

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  1. securebasil5286 says:

    thanks this really helped me with my BTEC Engineering

  2. jamie says:

    thanks this real help me with my BTEC WORK.

  3. Gary says:

    Don’t really know about metal stamping

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