We get this question every day as manufacturers struggle with ballooning lead times, expensive changes to tooling, and quality control for critical components. And the answer may surprise you! Sophisticated high-volume parts that traditionally required complex...
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,...
We're often asked this question after prospective customers receive a quotation. The answer is quite simple: your fourslide tool’s life is the same as the life expectancy of the part it’s making. Tooling built by Fourslide Spring and Stamping is truly a Non-Recurring...
We are often asked to recommend a material for a customer’s flat spring, spring clip, battery contact, or other custom part. The standard response is that we do not make material recommendation, because the application requirements (e.g., spring force, conductivity,...
A very high percentage of the parts for which we receive requests for quotation have never been made before. Whether it’s a flat spring, a battery contact, a wire form or a spring clip, our customers are usually fully immersed in designing a part that will fit their...
Here at Fourslide, we have long offered prototyping services for our customers. A very high percentage of the jobs we quote are for flat springs, contacts, clips, and other metal parts that have never been previously made, to be used in brand-new devices and products....
We’re frequently contacted by customers seeking assistance with a custom spring, clip or battery contact for their new products. Often, it’s the last item on their shopping list. The designs of other components — be it PCBs or plastic injection-molded parts — have...
Many manufacturers have long employed the fourslide process to produce formed parts with multiple bends and forms. Fewer, however, consider the fourslide process when faced with flatter parts, such as those pictured here. These types of light-gauge metal stampings are...
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...
