Focus processes: fine blanking and thinning deep drawing
What is fine blanking?
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Brackets Stamped brackets with repeatable hole positions for reliable assembly. Sensor Components Small functional parts for sensor assemblies where feature location drives performance. PROCESS OPTIONS Precision Stamping Process Options The correct process balances functional requirements, edge quality, tooling investment and production volume. 01 Progressive Stamping Progressive stations can combine closely related blanking and forming operations while maintaining strip control.
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- Precision Metal Stamping Services | Custom Stamped PartsBrackets Stamped brackets with repeatable hole positions for reliable assembly. Sensor Components Small functional parts for sensor assemblies where feature location drives performance. PROCESS OPTIONS Precision Stamping Process Options The correct process balances functional requirements, edge qual...
- Fine Blanking Operations in Precision Stamping | BalfordThe process virtually eliminates edge deformation, so geometry stays true. We hold flatness and perpendicularity to within 0.03mm, and in some cases down to 0.01mm. The sheared surface is smooth and can extend over 90% of the material thickness, which improves both the look and the function of the p...
- Precision Metal Stamping Services | Custom Stamped PartsCan Balford hold IT7 to IT9 accuracy? + We can hit IT7 to IT9 on suitable precision-stamped features, but it is not a blanket tolerance for every part. Material, geometry, feature type, distance from datums, tooling and measurement method all come into play. Capability is drawing-specific — we confi...
- Custom Metal Shims & Shim Washers Made to Drawing | BalfordWhat is the difference between laser cutting and blanking for shims? Cost and edge condition. Laser cutting needs no tooling, so it is the economical route up to roughly 2,000 pieces and the right choice for prototypes and profiles that are still changing; the edge carries a light heat-affected zone...
- Custom Metal Shims & Shim Washers Made to Drawing | BalfordA: Cost and edge condition. Laser cutting needs no tooling, so it is the economical route up to roughly 2,000 pieces and the right choice for prototypes and profiles that are still changing; the edge carries a light heat-affected zone and a dross burr that is removed before packing. Blanking needs a...
- Metal Stamping Guide: Processes, Materials, Costs | BalfordIt stops in three places. A closed, seamless body deeper than roughly half its own diameter is not stamping — that is deep drawing, and it needs a draw die, a blank holder and often several draws with annealing between them. A part whose geometry is turned or bored from bar is machining. And a...
What an engineer still needs from you
- material and material condition (grade, temper)
- material thickness, plus the key diameter, height and wall thickness
- tolerances, burr direction and the visual acceptance standard
- annual volume - it decides whether tooling is single-hit, progressive or transfer
- surface finish, and any secondary machining, annealing or plating
Next step. Send the drawing for a manufacturability review, or send the part data for a process and cost route.
Submit a drawing / RFQDFM review
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Related questions
- Fine blanking vs conventional blanking: which should I specify?
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- Which materials and thicknesses suit fine blanking?
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- What parts are typically fine blanked?
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