What are the advantages and disadvantages of compound dies?

Answer 1

Advantages -

1. One stroke results in flatter surface.

2. Tooling that is lees expensive than progressive die tooling.

3. Compound die maintained repeated accuracy of the component.

Disadvantage -

1. Since only cutting operations ar carried out.

2. Buliding a compound blank die is the limited space which ends to leave die components thin and weak.

3. This concentrates the load and shock on punches and matrixes resulting in tooling failures.

Answer 2

Compound dies are commonly run as single hit dies but can be run continuously with a feeder provided the part can be removed in a timely manner.

The advantages of building a compound die are;

1) Requires minimal space in the press.

2) Leaves all burrs in one direction.

3) Superior accuracy between holes and trim edges.

4) More economical to build than a progressive die.

A disadvantage of building a compound blank die is the limitedspace which ends to leave die components thin and weak. This concentrates the load and shock on punches and matrixes resultingin tooling failures.