Aluminum Material for Stamped Parts
Aluminum is a material that is often used in the stamping industry due to its characteristics and how it can be used across multiple industries. Its qualities make it an easy material to work with throughout many different applications.
Aluminum Characteristics
Because of their many advantages, aluminum stamped components are a common choice across a variety of sectors. These benefits result from the special qualities of aluminum and the economical stamping procedure. These are the main advantages:
- Lightweight Aluminum is far lighter than many other metals, like copper or steel, making products and components weigh less overall.
- High Strength to Weight Ratio: Aluminum has exceptional strength despite its light weight, particularly when alloyed with other materials.
- Adaptable to Low Temperatures: Aluminum is perfect for use in cryogenics and cold conditions because it maintains its durability at low temperatures, unlike some metals that break easily.
- Electric and Thermal Conductivity: While resistant to cold temperatures, aluminum also conducts heat and electricity well, making it useful in power systems, electrical enclosures, and heat sinks.
- Economical: Aluminum is more readily available and less expensive than other metals like copper or titanium.
- Visual Appeal: Aluminum is appealing for use in consumer goods and architecture because it may be anodized, polished, or coated to produce a high-quality finish.
Quality Assurance
At Wiegel, quality is our utmost priority. We conduct a feasibility review on the part to ensure manufacturability at the start of every program. A run-at-rate study is also implemented on the first run to ensure quality before large-scale production. This enables our quality and production management teams to monitor controls closely and make sure jobs run smoothly. Manufacturing continues once testing checks out, and the first batch of conforming parts is produced.
Our quality management system is comprised of sophisticated quality technology and controls, continuous improvement programs and a superior quality laboratory and management team. Throughout our production plant, we deploy camera vision systems and sensor technology, in which we design and fabricate unique to every production program. Our vision system technology operates in coordination with our stamping production machinery to thoroughly inspect and identify part features and dimensions with automated camera imaging. This quality control process ensures every part produced with our stamping equipment always yields 100% quality and zero defects.
Power your application more effectively with high-performing busbars from Wiegel. With a dedicated team, innovative equipment, and superior quality control, we provide exceptional services tailored to each customer’s unique needs.
Aluminum Material Applications
Aluminum stamped parts characteristics make it a common material used in many different sectors. Here are a few of the main uses:
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Industries
It’s our mission to offer premier metal stamping and metal forming solutions to the most challenging and innovative engineering product designs. We combine advanced metal stamping production and tooling equipment, superior quality controls, seamless automation and production processes, and a knowledgeable and experienced team to serve an array of market segments.
Services
Since 1941, we’ve continued to expand our service offering by taking on new capabilities with our industries' top-performing technology and equipment. This ensures production runs most efficiently and parts are 100% quality assured. From engineering and design through stamping production, we offer a full suite of metal stamping, metal forming, tooling and assembly services to allow OEM and tier manufacturers the ability to reduce and streamline their supply base. We are fully equipped and highly qualified to meet the special product requirements of multi-million-part stamping production programs.
Other Production Parts
Wiegel produces a variety of precision metal stampings made from copper, precious metal and ferrous metals. We produce stamping components such as busbars, brackets, electronic shielding components, lead frames, press-fit pins, terminals, wire and cable connectors, assemblies and more. We specialize in manufacturing of both precision electrical connectors and non-electrical parts that are used in our world’s most demanded consumer products and essentials.
