When you see metal products today, you may think about processes like mold casting and forging. However, a wide range of materials in industry are fabricated with metal stamping methods. Here is more about this process and some of the benefits it has to offer.
What Stamping Means
Instead of forming materials with molds or machining, you only need a section of sheet metal. It can be aluminum, stainless steel, brass, copper, or other metals. To fabricate products, sheet metal is placed inside of a stamp press (which has a tool and die mechanism). The tool forces the metal onto the die, bending and forming it into the desired shape.
Many materials are made with metal stamping methods. For example, brass instruments like French horns and tubas use a lot of different parts, and stamping forms these parts into most of the major components. In fact, many parts are made this way for a wide array of industries.
Benefits
You can create intricate and complex shapes with stamping. Thanks to a number of processes like bending, curling, and embossing, the possibilities are just about limitless. Many of these shapes are very hard to create with other methods.
Quality
When you cast materials in molds, you often end up with flashing. This requires an extra step and more labor to get rid of the flashing and create a smooth surface. Thanks to metal stamping, you do not end up with material like mold flashing, so it takes less time to create, and you end up with high-quality results.
Production
It takes only seconds to create many products with stamping. There are fewer steps than most fabrication or manufacturing processes. You can save a great deal of time and can turn out more parts or components each day. This increases efficiency, profits, and returns.
