What the work covers
A part is only as good as its tool. ENCO’s tool room designs and builds press dies, progressive tools, weld fixtures and checking gauges, and keeps them running through series production with planned die maintenance. More on the Engineering page.
How ENCO learned to build progressive tools
As one customer’s volumes grew, its part had to move from tandem stamping to a progressive tool. ENCO took the job. Our first progressive tool built in India did not work. To keep the customer’s production on track, we bought a tool from Korea.
While that tool ran, our toolmakers studied it and learned the method. For the next models, we designed and built the progressive tools ourselves. Trials and SOP were on time, with approved parts. Since then, the tool room has built more than 200 of them.
ENCO’s tool room
The tool room runs a die-spotting press, wire-cut, surface grinding, milling, lathe and radial drilling.
Dies and fixtures are designed in UG NX, SolidWorks, Solid Edge and AutoCAD. Forming is simulated in Altair HyperWorks before the tool is cut, and parts are scanned with PolyWorks.
About 50 tools, jigs, fixtures and special machines are built every month. Progressive tools go up to 2,500 mm and 15 stations; casting-type tools for large panels up to 1,900 mm and 5 tons.