Why Swaging?

Autoswage's unique automatic die swaging process saves you money and time on your high quality contact pins, connector pins and electronic and mechanical small metal parts. Low cost, fast production speed and the elimination of scrap metal make our swaging process extremely economical. Parts manufactured by screw machine, cold heading, forming, drawing, progressive dies and other methods result in higher costs and slower production rates. Autoswage's cold form swaging process produces high quality, reliable contact pins and small metal parts at faster production rates and a significantly lower cost to you.

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Accuracy - Increased Strength - Reduced Weight

Swaging,a cold forming process, squeezes and shapes cold metal into pin-shaped, small metal parts. It's a continuous operation where the small metal part, in various progressively developed stages, becomes its own carrying strip. After the last die station, the small metal part is separated from the carrying strip, or lap, and ejected from the machine. The progressive dies are split into equal top and bottom sections. The bottom half of the die is firmly attached to the machine base while the top half is fastened to the reciprocating machine gate. As the gate moves up and down at a rapid rate, the material is advanced through the dies and swaged to conform to the individual die cavities in a "progressive reduction" method. On each stroke of the machine, the carrying strip is oscillated 90 degrees, clockwise on one stroke, counterclockwise on the next. This oscillation permits striking the part on alternate sides to ensure accurate concentricity and uniform part development. Confinement of the material within the dies is complete to eliminate any possibility of flashing between die halves.

• Repetitive Accuracy: Depending on the material used and the shape of the part, a single set of dies will produce as many as 25,000,000 identical small metal parts before retooling is required.

• Dimensional Accuracy: Autoswage can produce nearly 1300 small metal parts per minute, up to 0.400" in diameter and up to 3.00" in length. Tolerances in both length and diameter are +/- 0.003.

• Increased Strength: The automatic die swaging process thickens wall sections where diameters are reduced because metal is redistributed throughout the part and not removed unless necessary.

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Saves You Money - Saves You Time

• Materials Cost Less: The process begins with a flat, metal strip stock, which costs less per pound than wire or rod.

• Part Uses Less Material: We then make a hollow, tubular metal part, using fewer pounds of material than a solid metal part. Although many perceive solid metal parts to represent higher quality, the opposite is really the case. Additionally, you also save with reduced shipping and transportation costs. In cases of consumer or industrial assembly, less weight means less fatigue and fewer injuries.

• No Materials Wasted: We don't throw any of that material away. All other processes create scrap. Screw machines have turnings, eyelet transfer presses and stampings have a skeleton. With swaging, every pound of raw material becomes a pound of swaged parts.

• Fast Production Time: Machine rates produce parts up to 1300 per minute! Not many other process can keep up with our production rates.

High production speed and the elimination of scrap make automatic die swaging extremely economical. Its versatility makes it a low-cost means of producing parts formerly manufactured be screw machine, cold heading, forming, drawing, progressive dies and other manufacturing methods.

Contact us to discuss how we can significantly reduce your costs and produce a high quality part for your needs.

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Experience and Technical Leadership You Can Trust

We always work closely with customers in basic value analysis to develop important economies and technical improvements unique to the Automatic Die Swaging method.

• Redesign Existing Parts: With our leadership and experience, we can design new parts or redesign old ones to reduce your costs. Our experienced designers can suggest many ways in which slight changes in your existing parts can greatly reduce your costs while preserving function. Sharp corners can be rounded, chamfered ends can be made spherical, undercuts blended with small radii. And weight reductions are often as dramatic as price reductions without sacrificing strength. The basic shape and function remain the same - but the price drops drastically.

• Better than Machined Parts: Most of the parts we produce were previously produced on screw machines or cold-headers. Our swaging is particularly well-suited for pin-shaped parts in quantities over 50,000. It's the ideal process for electronic and electrical parts, as well as mechanical components.

• Fast Production Time: Our machines can produce more than 1,300 pieces per minute, up to 0.4000 in diameter, up to 3.000 in length. Some tolerances can be held to +/- 0.003, with surfaces finishes up to 8µ.

• Comprehensive In-House Services: To complete the fabrication process and deliver a ready-to-use part, Autoswage offers in-house cleaning, burnishing and plating services.

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