Why Use Metal Spinning?
Benefits
- Short turnaround
- Flexibility in tooling
- Ease of design changes
- Inexpensive
- Faster production with automatic metal spinning machines
- Seamless made parts
- Smooth transitions
- from Prototype to production
- Improved material tensile strength
- Often doesn't require second finishing steps
Resources
Designing a part with spinning in mind using Precision Metalforming Association’s Design Guidelines
When it comes to cone-shaped, elliptical or other concave or convex parts, metal spinning should be on your short-list for consideration. Whether manual or CNC driven, spinning yields great advantages over other processes. In particular, metal spinning is a strong alternative to machining and deep drawing.
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Save Money in Part Production
When comparing spinning to machining and/or deep drawing, metal spinning brings minimal capital investment, tooling and energy costs, and short setup times, ultimately lowering the cost per part.
Use CNC metal spinning capabilities because it is quick and inexpensive to carry out other operations such as beading, profiling, trimming and turning in the same production cycle with one setup. If you’re looking for higher volume, deep drawing may be a better choice, and many suppliers of metal-spun parts also offer deep drawing services. With this said, technological advancements in metal spinning are closing the volume gap, so make sure to spec. out metal spinning before choosing a different option. When you match up spinning and machining head-to-head, metal spinning is a considerably more cost-efficient alternative to machining, offering higher material yield at lower overall cycle times. Plus, there’s little chance of crack propagation with metal spinning. Sometimes machining will be the secondary operation, offering additional utility to the spun part. Metal spinners offer machining services too!
Materials: Any sheet material that can be cold formed is a candidate for metal spinning.
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