How Much Does Metal Stamping Cost?

Regarding the quotation of a project, the customer always asks the approximate cost of the project, but the quotation of a project needs multiple information, such as material/thickness/size/quantity/product use, etc. We evaluate the detailed information of your product project, such as determining the most suitable processing process. In addition to the quotation, we will also make more cost-effective solution optimization for your project according to the performance requirements of the application scenario

Factors That Determine The Cost Of A Product

1. Material
2. Surface treatment
3.  Thickness
4.  Size
5. Quantity
6. Product use
7. Delivery cycle

The Impact Of Product Material And Parameter Costs

Each processing method, some materials, thickness, size have specific requirements, such as stamping process: under normal circumstances only for 0.1-12mm sheet, but different products, the acceptable thickness is not the same

1. Sheet: 300*300mm plate, generally less than or equal to 5mm；700*400mm, the minimum to 0.5mm material thickness is acceptable.

2. Coil material:  Generally 2.5mm thick.
3. Pipes/profiles: It can be stamped.
4. Insulation board:  Stamping within 2mm.

Of course, it can not be stamped, but can be cut with a laser machine.

Choose Different Processing Methods According To The Needs Of Customers’ Products

-Stamping (blanking – punching – bending – forming)

1. Blanking: the material is separated from the material or process parts along the outline, so as to obtain the required material on the material or process parts. In this step, there are two kinds of molds, respectively, continuous molds and ordinary molds.

Continuous die: expensive, one step molding, no other steps; Output faster than 20,000 a day, at least 100,000 more than 200,000 suitable;

Ordinary mold: need multiple steps to complete, 1500 a day;

2. Bending: If the bend or arc can be done, but if the distance between the two bends is too narrow, only the mold can be used
3. Punching: the aperture must be greater than the material thickness, otherwise the needle is easy to break and the damage rate is high

—- The size of the blanking is determined by the die, and the size of the workpiece when punching is determined by the punch.When the material thickness of the stamping product is greater than 2mm, there will be a fracture layer; Elimination method: fine cutting (wire cutting, processing costs will be high).This makes there are different mold choices, to determine what program is suitable for the project itself, and then make the corresponding quotation

-Laser cutting

The use of a focused high-power density laser beam to irradiate the workpiece, so that the irradiated material quickly melted, vaporized, ablated or reached the ignition point, and at the same time with the beam coaxial high-speed air blowing molten material, so as to achieve the workpiece cut, now generally use CO2 pulse laser, laser cutting is one of the thermal cutting methods.

1. Laser cutting tolerance: 0.2-0.5mm (tolerance is smaller than stamping)
2. Hole tolerance: +-0.1-0.2mm
3. Electrical discharge wire cutting: belongs to the field of electrical machining, sometimes also known as wire cutting.

-Stretch

Change the flat type ingredients or process parts into open hollow parts, or further change the shape of open hollow process parts,Become open hollow parts (repeated stretching is easy to harden, flatness is not guaranteed, vacuum annealing to soften)– There is an arc in stretching, and the right Angle cannot be stretched.

1. Tensile tolerance: Size dependent:
2. R Angle tolerance: R+1-2
3. 1-100mm tolerance :+-0.2mm
4. 100-200mm tolerance: +-0.4mm
5. 200-300mm tolerance: +-0.5mm

Metal is easily hardened by repeated stretching and needs to be softened by vacuum annealing.The workpiece made by spinning and drawing are particularly similar, the spinning process mold cost is low, the unit price is expensive and the efficiency is slow

The Effect Of Quantity On The Way The Product Is Processed

You know that the quantity is extremely important for the choice of processing methods, for example, in the face of an ordinary metal part, stamping requires a mold, and the mold cost is much higher than the product itself, but the single cost of the customized product with stamping is very low, and the product has good consistency, so the number of products is more than 5000, stamping is the best choice. However, if you want to do a sample or a small batch, it is more suitable for laser cutting, although the price of a single product is more expensive than stamping, but there is no need for mold fees, and you can quickly produce samples on the same day, and the unit price will be lower.

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In addition, if it is a continuous order, when a certain quantity conditions are reached, the company will also return the corresponding mold fees and sample costs, if your company has customized projects, please contact us