What is metal stamping?
Metal Stamping is the process of manufacturing metal parts to a specific design made from metal stock material and either stamped on a press using punches and dies to form relatively flat parts. Metal sizing, swaging, coining, and cold extrusion are some of the examples of metal stamping techniques.
Stamping is a term used to refer to various press forming operations including coining, embossing, blanking, and pressing. Forming metals using pressure into the surface of a metal, usually a strip or sheet. The operations most commonly associated with stamping are blanking, piercing, forming, and drawing. These operations are done with dedicated tooling also known as hard tooling. Hard tooling is used to make high volume parts of one configuration of part design. Soft tooling, on the other hand, is used in processes such as CNC turret presses, laser profilers, and press brakes. Soft tooling, on the other hand, can be easily modified or adjusted.
