Quoting Method Madness

Posted by stephens on Jul 26, 2010 in Engineering Decisions, Rants, Tips & Techniques | 3 comments

The quoting methods in the stamping industry are a blend of black magic and bullshit. You have your good old fashioned Sight Method. That is where someone looks at the part and says, “That is a $250,000 die right there.” How the fuck do they know that? “Experience.” Then, there is the Length-of-Line Method. You know that one. Measure some...

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Faster Than You

Posted by stephens on Sep 2, 2009 in Automated Transactions, Engineering Decisions | 0 comments

My pal Eric Kam has an excellent post about estimating dies. He is correct in that most shops do not know their actual costs to build a one-off stamping die. Eric is also correct that the estimate of costs by these shops has a high degree of variation. I think the intellectual argument he suggests is valid, but the culture of the die business will get hung up on...

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