In-die Tapping Reduces the Risk of Untapped Parts

One of the continuing concerns we hear from customers revolves around stamped parts being shipped to a customer without a tapped hole.   This risk can be minimized by using sensors in the tapping station to make sure the tap goes through the stamped part.  This simple and effective process greatly minimizes the risk of shipping untapped parts.

Now compare this with the risk of shipping untapped parts on a secondary operation.  Most secondary tapping operations have a lot of human interaction.  These repetitive types of operation can easily lead to operators skipping a tapped hole on parts with multiple tapped holes.  Low cost automation can eliminate some of the skipped hole problems.  But what about parts where the operator just plain forgets to load into the secondary tapping machine but the parts still wind up in the good part bin.

In-die tapping certainly reduces the cost of parts by eliminating a secondary tapping operation.  In addition, it can also be a tremendous cost saver and customer service winner by eliminating the risk of sending untapped parts to a customer.