Tooling

ForMasters' production capabilities are enhanced and supported by our fully equipped, in-house tooling division. Our staff of engineers and journeyman diemakers respond to the demands of modern day manufacturing practices.

ForMasters' engineers provide realization of your product needs. Utilizing the latest in computer-assisted design (CAD) techniques, our engineers bring their years of experience to bear in carrying your project needs to fruition. Our staff works closely with customers to provide economical solutions to problem areas and can often integrate secondary operations into a single process. Our engineers can take a product requirement from a notion or general idea all the way to designs for tools that produce consistent, conforming product. Or we will assist at or through any stage of product or tooling development. We will also work to your prints.

Engineering in place, our toolmakers and diemakers supply the expertise and skill to seize a concept and build it into reality. In our thoroughly modern toolroom, utilizing up-to-date computer-assisted machining (CAM) techniques, CNC machines, and traditional know-how, ForMasters' craftspersons turn out tooling that matches the standards of the industry, ensuring product equal to demanding requirements.

For the customer, in-house tooling means:

• Smooth transition: from concept through engineering to tooling and finished product, an uninterrupted process results in higher probability of error free work.

• Ease of procurement: a result of utilizing an integrated supply chain, as opposed to dealing with a multiplicity of suppliers and the problems inherent therein.

• Shorter lead times: collaboration between and among departments affords the efficiency of a coordinated effort.

• Better fill rate: skilled artisans are on hand to respond immediately to problems that may arise on the production line, thus reducing downtime.

ForMasters' tooling division offers engineering assistance, single hit and progressive stamping dies, rolls, cutoff dies, and special purpose machines.