Working with the right electrical contact manufacturer, using the best technology for the job, can have big payoffs in design reliability and cost. The smallest metal parts can often be among the most critical components in larger products, and how they're specified,...
Facing market uncertainty, manufacturers are relying on flexible, economical part production methods to accommodate for frequent changes while scaling up from pre-production to higher volumes. Whether launching a new product, improving a product, entering a new...
Brunton Outdoor chose the domestic fourslide process for fast, accurate, economical, easily modified, straight stamping of parts. Fourslide was able to create combination tooling that accommodated two types of similar stampings for less than $6,500. Using conventional...
When a manufacturer launches a new product or enters a new market, it often finds itself between a rock and a hard place, production-wise. On one hand, it must keep manufacturing costs as low as possible upfront, since market demand can be uncertain and volatile, and...
If you're sourcing stamped metal parts from overseas, you may be required to order far more than you really need, in addition to paying more for tooling and material. If you're sourcing metal stampings from overseas locations such as China, you're most likely buying...
A start-to-finish metal part-making process can offer manufacturers unprecedented cost and time savings. Director of Sales and Marketing Jim Richards says Fourslide Spring and Stamping Inc. doesn't try to be a "jack of all trades." But even the smallest custom...
The fourslide part-making process offers several benefits versus the traditional power press. Here's how to decide if and when to take advantage of it. Named for the four tool slides that perform stamping and forming operations, the fourslide process offers several...
Manufacturers are slashing part cost, speeding product delivery, and streamlining quality assurance with an integrated stamping and forming operation called fourslide. Manufacturers have traditionally relied on power press machines to stamp out many of their parts in...
For "straight stamping" jobs under one million parts and 25 tons, the fourslide integrated stamping and forming operation is proving more cost effective than power press machines. While manufacturers have long used an integrated stamping and forming operation called...
Communications equipment must be reliable beyond all else. From battery contacts to belt clips, it all comes down to the components—and finding a supplier with expertise you can count on. It doesn't look all that hi-tech. In fact it just looks like a modified...
Use of the fourslide manufacturing process and upfront consultation with the vendor provide lessons for the launch of any new product. What conscientious manufacturer doesn't undertake much planning before its new product begins its maiden voyage into the commercial...
