Electronics Metal Part Fabrication
Electronics parts are small, made in enormous numbers, and unforgiving: a contact that is two thousandths out of position is a line stoppage at the assembly plant, not a scrap ticket at ours.
This is the work progressive tooling was invented for. High annual quantities, tight repeatable features, and a material that has to conduct or shield rather than just hold a shape. Frontier has been stamping electronics components for over 40 years, and the parts run on high-speed coil-fed presses with feed and tonnage monitoring on every stroke.
Materials that do the electrical work
Most electronics parts are chosen for a property other than strength. Copper and brass for conductivity, beryllium copper and phosphor bronze where a contact has to stay springy through thousands of cycles, stainless where the part has to survive its environment. All of them stamp differently, and all of them are in our normal run of work.
Assembly, not just stamping
A stamped shield is rarely the finished item. We weld, rivet and install fasteners in house, so a part that needs a PEM insert or a spot weld does not need a second supplier and a second freight leg. The Haeger 618 insert press and the Taylor Winfield spot welder sit on the same floor as the presses.
Parts we make for this industry
- Electrical contacts
- EMI clips and shields
- Antennas
- Metal enclosures and cases
- Cooling plates
- Fuse holders
- Brush holders
- Specialty formed bus bars
- Electron multiplier plates
Parts listed are representative of work Frontier has produced. Customer names appear only where that relationship is already public.
Why the tool room matters to you
Frontier builds its own dies. You pay for the tool once, when the parts are acceptable to you, and after that you never pay us for that tool again — setups, maintenance, sharpening, storage and complete rebuilds are covered for as long as the part design does not change.
Common questions
Can you stamp beryllium copper and phosphor bronze?
Yes. Spring alloys are routine work here, and they are usually the right answer for a contact that has to stay springy over its life.
Do you handle assembly?
Yes. Welding, spot welding, riveting, PEM and stud insertion and general assembly are all done in house.
What quantities make sense?
Progressive tooling generally starts paying for itself around eight thousand parts a year, but it is a calculation rather than a rule. There is a break-even calculator on the tooling page.
Send us a print
Tell us the part, the material and the annual quantity. We will come back with a straight answer on tooling, lead time and price.
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