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Quote Small Lots.
Keep Your Customers.

“…we needed 25 parts, we could put that setup in the brake and run the job faster using C-Frame…” Manufacturing Manager at a Custom Manufacturer

Business Challenge: You know existing customers are your best source for additional business. With the trend in manufacturing toward smaller lot sizes, you could lose your customers if you can’t meet their need for small lots.

  • Do you want to provide customers with small jobs more promptly and more profitably?
  • Have you stopped quoting small jobs to avoid a large tooling investment on a small program?
  • Does spreading the cost of a long set up over a short lot make you uncompetitive?
  • Do you simply decline to quote small lots because making holes one-at-a-time on CNC hole making equipment takes too long and costs too much?

Your UniPunch Alternative: For punching and notching small lots of your recurring parts, dedicated setups of UniPunch unitized press tooling are a “silver bullet” delivering both short set up times for fast changeover from part to part and the productivity of making many holes at once. Plus you retain the predictable productivity of stamping from a reusable tooling investment.

You can have it all with UniPunch tooling:

  • Short lead times and low cost by using standardized components to quickly assemble low cost press tooling
  • Short set up times from dedicated quick change press tooling
  • Predictable productivity of stamping instead of making holes one-at-a-time

Imagine having all that from a reusable tooling investment so if the program turns out to be a short one you can reuse the tooling in other quick change setups for other parts and for years to come. Plus you can amortize the cost of UniPunch press tooling over numerous jobs and reduce you bid price on all of them.

How It Works: UniPunch tooling is a system of standardized components that can be promptly assembled into a dedicated quick change setup that is ready when your customer calls for the part.

UniPunch tooling gives you the predicable productivity of stamping on low cost punch presses or press brakes. The shorter run time for the job can be quoted at a lower rate than if you used expensive CNC hole making equipment. Save time and money, quote lower prices, and free up your CNC hole making equipment for the parts for which it is uniquely capable.

Let UniPunch Help You: Quote small lots and keep your customers. UniPunch gives you quick change tooling and the high and predictable productivity of stamping from a flexible and reusable tooling investment. To learn more, send us a print package and let us quote tooling to make one or several of your parts.

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