Precision stamping is often considered one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways of manufacturing complex products. One of its main benefits is that it can be highly automated, which can in turn offer a fast turnaround and produce the product quickly.

Factories in particular use precision stamping applications, and there are three types which are a popular choice. They are:

-          Micro precision stamping

-          Intricate prevision metal work

-          Prototype design

Each of these types of precision stamping applications have their unique abilities, which makes them favourable to produce precision stamping products for a variety of purposes.  Precision stamping involves the creation of stamping, folding, drawing or piercing of a product – this could be in a single form or from a series of operations.

Micro precision stamping is one example of a precision stamping application.  It can be used to create minute stamps, cuts, bends or folds in a product.  This can also support the tools with diameters on the micron level, and can sometimes be used within prototype design - making them extremely versatile.

Prototype design and precision stamping

Companies who can offer precision stamping for prototype designs have an advantage, because they can provide a fast turnaround.  The precision stamping process as part of creating a prototype design, is one way to reduce the need and save costs for expensive tooling applications.

Precision stamping can be used for the following types of prototype designs:

Individual Prototype Parts: These are manually moved from each of the stations that the product goes through.  It is then decided whether the product will be blanked or metal formed.  The main advantage for this type of stamping is that the method reduces the tooling costs, but a high quality design is still produced.

Progressive Strip Prototyping: This is different to individual prototype parts, due to the fact that a die is used instead at the different stages the product goes through.  Each of these stages means the die completes part of the production process, and delivers a product at the final stage.  An advantage for this is that it’s an application which can be used for smaller products, and can offer advanced feature tolerance, as well as increasing the production speed process considerably.

Precision stamping is a great way of getting a high quality design prototype. Brandauer offer precision stamping using a range of application tools, to give you the ideal prototype design.

Companies which can offer precision stamping for prototype designs have an advantage, because they can provide a fast turnaround.