Digital tooling cuts costs for small designs

Precision Micro can manufacture a component in the time it takes to design a conventional tool.

Precision Micro produces technologies that meet the ever more demanding miniaturisation requirements of modern design.

High-precision components are manufactured using low-cost digital and modular tooling.

This gives the designer the flexibility to optimise the design throughout the prototype stage without incurring prohibitive cost penalties..

The complexity of a component is not reflected in the cost of digital tooling, whereas with hard press tooling the smaller and more complex the design, the higher the tooling cost.

A further benefit of digital tooling is that it is virtually instant as opposed to conventional tooling which can take months to manufacture.

Precision Micro can manufacture a component in the time it takes to design a conventional tool.

The modular approach that the company has adopted for 3D press tooling involves breaking a forming process down into individual operations and producing an individual tool to suit each one.

These small modular tools are very economical to make when compared to a complex, multifunctional or progressive press tool and are manufactured in-house.

Over the years, Precision Micro has amassed over 3000 of these modular tools, which are stored and catalogued for easy access and use on any job.

Mick Taylor, Market Development Manager said "With so many modular press tools we are finding that over 95% of our customers' forming requirements can be met using standing tooling off our own shelf".

"This not only saves cost for the customer but also enables us to reduce our delivery times to a absolute minimum as we don't have to wait for new tooling to be manufactured".

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