2024 Forecast for Metal Stamping Materials
The metal stamping industry is a critical component of the manufacturing sector, playing a vital role in producing parts for various industries, ...
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Rigid Busbars Reign Supreme in EVs
Busbars: The Lifeline of Electric Vehicles Before we discuss why rigid busbars are superior to flexible busbars, it's crucial to grasp the ...
The Evolution from NAFTA to USMCA
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which took effect in 1994, was a landmark trade deal between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. ...
5 Metal Stamping Trends to Watch for in 2023
Navigating the metal stamping industry can be a challenge - but keeping on top of its advancements is critical for OEM manufacturers. This year, ...
Automated vs Manual Self-Clinching Fastener Insertion
Technology has become ingrained in our daily lives, making how we live, work and play easier and more enjoyable with each new innovation that ...
Why Copper is Ideal for Industrial Use
When you think of copper, you may immediately imagine a penny or the Statue of Liberty with its well-known green patina. Copper is far more than a ...
Deciding if Aluminum is Suitable for a Metal Stamped Part
Choosing the appropriate metal for your stamped part can be tricky. In some cases, there are parts that could be made from several different ...
Choosing the Right Metal Stamping Material
Precision metal stamping is one of the most popular manufacturing processes for various industrial applications because it is quick, accurate, and ...
Copper vs Aluminum Busbars — Which Is Right for Your Project?
There is some debate regarding which material is better for use for busbars—aluminum or copper. Both materials have been used with success, but which ...
2022 Forecast for Metal Stamping Materials
The price of nearly every design and construction material or component you can imagine went through increases in 2021. Unfortunately, if you were ...
Finishing Options for Metal Stampings
When designing and producing precision metal stamped components, engineers and project managers representing the manufacturer, its suppliers, and the ...
Growth in Electric Vehicles Driving Need for Metal Stamped Busbars
Demand is revving up for electric vehicles of all kinds, from cars to trucks to public transport. According to Bloomberg NEF market forecasts, ...
Cleaning Metal Stampings Is Critical to Its Finish and Function
Cleaning Metal Stampings Is Critical to Its Finish and Function The metal stamping process leaves residues, such as lubricants, metal shavings, and ...
Heat Treating Techniques to Strengthen Metal Stampings
Heat Treating Techniques to Strengthen Metal Stampings Custom metal stampings may require heat treating after stamping to achieve an OEM’s ...
How Metal Plating Enhances Stamped Parts
A wide range of custom metal stampings require metal plating as part of the finishing process – from large automotive parts to miniature components ...
Powder Coating and E-Coating Improve Corrosion Resistance and Appearance of Metal Stampings
Of the many finishing options available for metal stampings, powder coating and electro-coating (e-coating) are often preferred by automotive OEMs ...
The Benefits of Electropolishing for Your Precision Metal Stamped Part
Because the metal stamping process puts metal under enormous pressure in order to achieve the desired form, components may require polishing after ...
Deburring Improves Performance and Appearance of Metal Stampings
The metal stamping process uses heavy tonnage presses to form a wide variety of metal materials, which can produce burrs – excess metal in a rough or ...
Progressive Stamping Delivers High Speed Production and Lower Costs
Progressive die stamping is a high-volume, high-performance metal stamping process that uses progressive dies, which perform multiple operations in ...
Is Progressive Die Stamping or Transfer Die Stamping Best for Your Next Precision Metal Stamping Project?
If you’re responsible for designing or buying precision metal stamped parts, it’s important to understand when to use progressive die stamping versus ...
Three Trends Buyers of Precision Metal Stampings Should Watch in 2019
Now that we’ve settled into the new year it’s the perfect time to reflect on 2018 and think about what trends are likely to influence decisions you ...
How Precision Metal Stampers Use 3D Simulation Software to Design Tooling
Today’s precision metal stampers are turning to sophisticated 3D simulation software to produce high quality parts.
Why Metal Stamping Buyers Are Carefully Watching Steel Prices
US Steel prices are currently the highest in the world. That’s certainly motivation for buyers and manufacturers of metal stamping components to ...
Metal Stamping Defects Not an Option for Automotive Stamped Parts
In an increasingly global automotive market, suppliers such as precision metal stamping firms must be able to deliver parts with zero defects and ...
Metal Stamping Defects Can Spell Disaster for Medical Devices
Defective medical devices are costing manufacturers billions of dollars every year. Even more alarming, defects can lead to patient death and harm. ...
Automotive OEMs Save Big with Switch to Metal Stamping
Automotive manufacturers and their suppliers can see significant reductions in piece prices by working with metal stamping engineers to determine ...
Implantable Medical Devices Spur Metal Stamping Innovations
The implantable medical device market is growing at a rapid pace globally. As manufacturers develop amazing new therapeutic technologies for ...
Ensuring Quality in Metal Stampings from Start to Finish: 13 Critical Steps to Ensure Metal Stamping Success (Steps 8-13)
Manufacturers who require precision metal stampings can benefit from understanding how to optimize the metal stamping process and reduce costs. This ...
Planning Can Save Production Time and Costs: 13 Critical Steps to Ensure Metal Stamping Success (Steps 4-7)
In the first part in this series, Metal Stampings Can Impact Your Bottom Line, we covered the first three of 13 critical steps to ensure success in ...
Metal Stampings Can Impact Your Bottom Line: 13 Critical Steps to Ensure Metal Stamping Success (Steps 1-3)
Metal stamped parts may appear to be just a small component of the larger product, but they can have a significant impact on a manufacturer’s bottom ...
What to Look for at Site Visits to Metal Stamping Companies
Manufacturers who are considering adding or replacing a supplier of precision metal stamping face a daunting task of evaluation. Often, the process ...
Progressive Stamping vs. Fine Blanking: Three questions OEMs Should Ask
For manufacturers who require precision parts with tight tolerances, it can pay to compare the options for manufacturing processes. Although fine ...
Using Multiple-Up Dies for Metal Stamping to Save Money and Boost Volume
Designing the metal stamping die to produce a new precision part is one of the most important steps to ensuring long-term success in production. ...
Metal Stamping Sensors Boost Efficiency, Quality
In precision metal stamping, every stroke of the press exerts tremendous pressure on the metal being formed, which can lead to unpredictable problems ...
Steel Market Impacts Metal Stamping Lead Times and Prices
With steel one of the top metals used in metal stamping, global market fluctuations in the supply and demand for steel have been pushing steel prices ...
Designing the Metal Stamping Strip to Minimize the Use of Precious Metals
Manufacturers in the automotive, electronics, telecommunications and medical device industries are among the leading users of precious metals such as ...
How Metal Stamping Simulation Software Saves Money
Simulation software is a powerful aid to new product development in industries as diverse as automotive, aerospace and medical devices. Finite ...
Metal Stampings Have Limitations – Keep Them in Mind when Designing Your Part
Computer-aided design (CAD) is a wonderful technology that can lead product engineers and designers to think that anything is possible. After all, ...
How Tight of a Tolerance Do You Need for Your Metal Stamping?
How tight of a tolerance do you need for your metal stamping? That’s a good question. The answer isn’t complex, nor is it simple and straightforward.
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Running Metal Stamping Family Dies
Family tooling is a method in which a manufacturer designs and builds a die that is able to simultaneously produce multiple components in different ...
Can U.S. Metal Stamping Companies Compete with Lower Cost Markets?
With significant gains in U.S. productivity in recent years, U.S. manufacturers are seeing an overall cost advantage when using U.S. suppliers, as ...
Why a Single-Source Metal Stamping Company Might Be the Right Decision
When a metal stamping company develops your product from design through production in-house, there's a greater chance you'll get your parts on time ...
Four Tips for Keeping Metal Stamping Costs Down and Inventory Flowing During an Uptick in Sales
Many manufacturers are experiencing steady increases in sales. In fact, according to the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation ...
Prevent Inventory Shortages - Consider Material Lead Times
Due to the uptick in business and the prior slowdown at the mills, we are seeing precision metal stamping material lead-times increasing ...
Two Key Factors for Picking Quality Metal Stamping Suppliers
Every manufacturer’s goal is to have a zero-defect production line, but OEMs and their suppliers alike know that problems are inherent in any ...
What Factors Affect the Prices OEMs Pay for Metal Stampings?
With more and more suppliers becoming more competitively priced, pressures to use lower cost parts are rising. Keeping the following factors in mind ...
Move It or Lose It. How to Smoothly Transfer Tools to a New Metal Stamping Supplier
From economic downturns to natural disasters to industrial accidents, the huge upheavals in the global manufacturing supply chain in recent years ...
Continual Training Demonstrates a Commitment to Quality
This is the tenth and final post in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" ...
How Using Effective Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) Can Reduce Medical Device Quality Issues
This is the ninth in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help medical ...
Quality Improves with Careful Supplier Selection, Monitoring, and Evaluation
This is the eighth in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help medical ...
Avoid Quality Issues by Implementing a Change Control Process
This is the seventh in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help ...
Prevention and Detection Systems Improve Quality Control
This is the sixth in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help medical ...
Medical Device Firms Improve Quality Through Robust Launch and Qualification Process
This is the fifth in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help medical ...
Costs of Quality Failure Makes Risk Management a High Priority
This is the fourth in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help medical ...
In-House Engineering, Design, and Tool Build Expertise Improve Metal Stamping Quality and Reliability
This is the third in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help medical ...
ISO 13485 Demonstrates a Supplier’s Knowledge of the Specifications and Requirements unique to Medical Devices
This is the second in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help medical ...
Top Management's Commitment to Quality Spreads Throughout Organization
This is the first in Kenmode's blog article series entitled "10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Manufacturers" to help medical ...
10 Metal Stamping Quality Indicators for Medical Device Mfrs
Quality is the #1 concern for OEM engineering and purchasing managers in all industries, but nowhere is quality more critical than in the ...
Silver May be Low-Cost Solution for Plating Electronic Connector Stampings
Not long ago we featured a blog article about the use of palladium as an alternative to gold for plating electronic components due to the rising ...
Sorting Out Quality Best Practices for Medical Metal Stampings
Highly specialized and regulated industries, such as the medical device industry, demand adherence to their own preferred standards for ...
Kenmode Precision Metal Stamping Quality in Action! [Video]
Kenmode Precision Metal Stamping's commitment to quality is evident in this new video. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the people, processes, and ...
Does Your Precision Metal Stamper Practice MSA? Ask!
The Importance of Following MSA and GR&R Quality Standards It’s tempting to think that all precision metal stamping companies and component ...
Starting DFM Early with Metal Stamping Companies Limits Part Failure Risk
Design for Manufacturability (DFM) is a very important tool in the quality toolbox for manufacturers of complex products. All too often, however, ...
Metal Stamping Companies Adopt Automotive Industry Best Practices
Quality Matters: Learning from the Turnaround in the U.S. Auto Industry For decades, the U.S. auto industry lagged behind foreign brands in ...
5 Tips to Smooth Transition from Medical Device Design to Manufacture
A common obstacle to a successful market launch is the transition of medical products from design to manufacture, with issues often leading to ...
Why Risk Poor Precision Metal Stamping Quality? Automotive Industry Averts Risk with APQP.
Precision metal stampings are a critical component of so many products. Automotive components, medical devices, electronic parts – all contain metal ...
Want consistent precision metal stamping quality? Insist on SPC.
SPC. You’ve heard the acronym. Some customers, especially in the automotive industry, require it. But do you know why it’s critical for metal ...
Precision Metal Stamping Quality -- Acronyms You've Got to Know.
As an engineer or designer, you expect precision metal stamping manufacturers to provide uncompromised quality. Zero defects is no longer a goal; it ...
Precision Metal Stamping Industry Sees Big Swings in Metal Prices
Precision metal stamping manufacturers are finding metal markets increasingly unpredictable. The industry has experienced wild swings both up and ...
A Must-Have Reference for Precision Metal Stamping Projects
Are you a design engineer, specifier, or buyer of precision metal stampings? Then you can't afford to be without this must-have reference.
WOW -- Metal Stamping Business Has Changed in 50 Years!
The precision metal stamping industry has changed just a bit in the last 50 years.
It's Time to Consider Palladium for Electronics Plating -- Again.
Author: Vince Azzano, Director of Technical Sales, Precision Plating Company Fabricated gold prices are at an all-time high, and traders and analysts ...
Limit Scrap - A Surefire Way to Reduce Precision Metal Stamping Costs
Are you looking for ways to reduce costs on your precision metal stamping projects? One of the first places to look is on the factory floor. How ...
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