Dawson Shanahan explores tooling for manufacture and its associated costs in a comprehensive new guide available for free from its website.
The leading precision engineering specialist has published a comprehensive new guide on tooling for manufacture. It discusses the importance of high quality tooling for manufacturers and explains the costs associated with the process.
Tooling, the process of designing and engineering the tools that are necessary to manufacture parts or components, is an essential part of the manufacturing process. However, the types and costs of tooling vary significantly, which means companies are often left confused over costs and quotes, and therefore fail to get good value for money.
Entitled ‘Tooling for manufacture: A guide to the engineering process’, it clears up common misconceptions about tooling and provides practical advice to manufacturers to enable them to get the best tooling at the right price for them. The guide also goes on to explain how effective planning and product design stages are key to tooling, drawing attention to how considering the method of manufacture can help to achieve lower part costs.
Jeff Kiernan, commercial director at Dawson Shanahan, says: “Although tooling is an essential requirement for most manufacturers, there isn’t an industry-wide standard for calculating tooling pricing and costs. This makes it very difficult for manufacturers to compare prices and quotes from project to project and achieve value for money. Our guide is designed to help manufacturers overcome this issue, by providing them with more information on the process and outlining how they can benefit from cost effective tooling of a high standard.
“At Dawson Shanahan, our approach is to work with each customer, clearly explaining how our tooling costs are calculated and then finding the solution that works best for both parties. This approach ensures our customers get a good deal and an end product they’ll be pleased with.”
With over 70 years’ experience, Dawson Shanahan Limited is the leading global specialist in cold forming and machining of high precision, customer specified copper, aluminium, ferrous and assembled components.
Dawson Shanahan offers a complete solution, with everything from prototype to production, being designed and manufactured in house to reduce both manufacturing lead time and costs for its customers.
Dawson Shanahan’s new guide to tooling is available for free as a download from the company’s website: www.dawson-shanahan.co.uk
With over 80 percent of its business being exported, the company’s products meet the demands of a wide range of sectors including aerospace, automotive, electronics, laser, medical, packaging, plasma, power distribution, telecoms and welding.
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