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Multi-Slide and Four-Slide production processes are often substantially more flexible and efficient than conventional stamping methods. Multi-Slide machines feed coiled flat or wire stock through up to three stages of multiple-axis stamping, bending or forming in rapid succession…usually completing a part with each stroke. Punching, piercing, notching, extruding, curling, embossing, coining, tapping, riveting, stacking, assembly and much more. All these processes performed in a continuous motion and often, without a secondary, off-line operation of any kind. That's efficiency. Compact dies can be used to punch or form a remarkable variety of shapes, while many operations can be performed by single "slide-form" tooling that often consists of a cam to bend or shape the stock around a mandrel. For more complex assemblies, pre-fabricated parts can be hopper-fed into position and assembled directly to the stamping as it's being formed on the Multi-Slide machine. Slide-forming is versatile, precise, fast and extremely efficient. |
