Dave Harmeyer
Engineering Manager
The Metalworking Group Cincinnati, OH

The Metalworking Group employs a wide range of metal working equipment... from CNC machining to hard dies to robotic welding to a turret / shear combination to powder coat painting to UniPunch C-Frame Tooling to serve their customers. The company also operates about 35 stamping presses.

“ Once it’s set up and you have your template made, it’s a breeze... just a snap”

How do you utilize Unipunch C-Frame Tooling in your manufacturing business?
“ We’re making 300 to 500 of these parts...a flat strip with half a dozen holes in it. It’s a large quantity order that we run several times a year. The cost of running these parts on the turret as opposed to running them on the UniPunch tooling would cost about twice as much."

“ In one hit, using UniPunch tooling, we have a completed part. Making that part on the turret, even though the hits are faster, it would probably take twice as long so we’re saving the turret time plus we’re making more parts per hour on the Unipunch tooling. The UniPunch tooling has already paid for itself in a single year.

What interested you in Unipunch tooling?
“ There are several reasons. One is if we can take work off the CNC turrets and put it on the brakes, it’s a much lower cost situation. It’s actually a cost savings more than anything. Then we can put other work on the turrets."

“ We initially got started using UniPunch tooling on one particular part, but since then we had two or three similar parts come in that we have ordered tooling for. The operators and I get together and decide how to make the parts. Our operators add a lot to the decision making process. The operators like working with the tooling. Once it’s set up and you have your template made, it’s a breeze...just a snap.”

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