Progressive Tooling

Progressive tooling is another form of “hard” tooling, where a single tool is dedicated to producing a single part. As you can see in the above example, the finished parts are ready to be separated from the strip of steel. The difference between Progressive Tooling and Modular Tooling is the fact that numerous operations or stages are built into a single tool. The metal fed into a Progressive Tool comes on a coil. Each time the press makes a stroke cycle, the strip is advanced and another process is completed. Numerous cycles can be completed in just seconds! The last process would be separating the finished part from the strip.

Progressive tooling is a great option for high volume projects that are not threatened by design changes. This is because Progressive Tooling can be expensive to build or modify, and the per-part cost savings must be amortized over the lifetime of the part. Because the Progressive Tooling material is fed into the punch press from a coil of metal, there are thickness limitations. An advantage of Progressive Tooling would be the numerous operations performed in the consecutive stations of the die set. Some of these operations include: blanking, forming, drawing, piercing, tapping, staking, riveting, and insertion of clinch hardware. Consult the Dayton Rogers Process Engineers to see if Progressive Tooling would be an economical operation for your project.

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