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Safety First: Protecting your Team and Tools

While metal stamping is a highly efficient and crucial industry, it can also come with significant risks. The equipment used to shape and bend metal sheets can be dangerous if handled improperly and poses a potential hazard to employees and tools in the vicinity if proper safety processes aren’t implemented....

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The Role of Technology in Modern Metal Stamping

Metal stamping suppliers provide components to a vast array of consumers, particularly quickly progressing industries that are evolving to become more advanced and sophisticated year over year. To keep up with the transforming needs of consumers, metal stamping suppliers utilize their own innovative technologies to streamline the metal stamping process,...

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Exploring Metal Stamping Materials

Metal stamping is a versatile manufacturing process with a wide range of materials that can vary greatly based on price point, durability, or functionality. It’s important to consider the complexity of your metal stamping process, as well as the desired function, to determine which material is best suited for your...

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The Importance of Tool and Die Maintenance

Tool and Die Maintenance

Tool and die making are a critical part of both metal stamping and manufacturing as a whole. For a successful metal stamping project, tool and die makers collaborate with engineers to carefully design the details for the stamped part, and plan which tool and dies are necessary to punch and...

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Cost Factors: Budgeting for your Metal Stamping Project

Metal Stamping Project

Metal stamping is a critical component of numerous projects across a versatile range of industries and is responsible for meeting production volumes and creating complex metal components. However, as necessary and innovative as metal stamping is, high-quality products also come with a price tag. Here are a few critical cost...

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Understanding Supply Chain Tiers

When choosing your metal stamping suppliers, it’s important to understand the three tiers within the supply chain, as well as how they interact and intersect with each other. OEM companies (original equipment manufacturers) are typically who customers work directly with for final products and assemblies, but numerous tiers make up...

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Overcoming Challenges in the Metal Stamping Industry

While metal stamping is a broad and versatile industry, it involves carefully precise work with complex equipment. Naturally, challenges often unfold which trusted metal stamping professionals must be able to overcome quickly and efficiently. Many challenges occur as a result of the materials being stamped. Often metal will crack or...

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Automation in the Metal Stamping Industry

Automation, an evolving trend in the metal stamping industry, changes the way products are created and workers allocate their time in the workplace. While the increased standardization of automation brings with it pros and cons, there’s no debate that automation is changing the face of metal stamping and allowing for...

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The Future of Electro Coating

Electro coating (e-coating) has long been used to increase the durability and aesthetic appeal of metal parts by using electrical currents to attach wet paint to metal surfaces. E-coating is standardized in many industries, and nearly 99% of all vehicles utilize this process. Let’s look at e-coating trends in the...

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