High Quality Tool & Die Making

AmeriStar has produced production dies for more than 90 years. Our in-house facility provides shorter production time while maintaining the highest quality possible. Experienced and skilled personnel engineer and construct blanking dies, combination dies and forming dies to produce your components.

Working from blueprints, our tool and die makers plan the sequence of operations necessary to manufacture the tool or die. We measure and mark the pieces of metal that will be cut to form parts of the final product. At this point, our tool and die makers cut, drill, or bore the part as required, checking to ensure that the final product meets specifications. Finally, we assemble the parts and perform finishing jobs such as filing, grinding, and polishing surfaces.

Cost Effective Tool & Die Making

Technology has changed the ways our tool and die makers perform our jobs. We use computer-aided design (CAD) to develop products and parts. Specifications entered into computer programs are used to electronically develop drawings for the required tools and dies. Our numerical tool and process control programmers use computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programs to convert electronic drawings into computer programs that contain instructions for a sequence of cutting tool operations. Once these programs are developed, computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines follow the set of instructions contained in the program to produce the part. CNC programs are stored electronically for future use, saving time and increasing worker productivity.

Tool & Die Making Specifications:

Equipment:

• Sodick EDM A320-D
• Various lathes, surface grinders, mills, and drill presses
• In-house tool room so tooling can be done on site