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A tapping and drilling service can help you finish your metal parts requiring drilled or tapped holes quickly and easily, whether it is 1 part or a million.

Automated Production Assemblies’ (APA) production tapping service and drilling service has been helping part manufactures create high quality tapped and drilled parts since 1973. For many reasons tapping of stamped, or machined metal parts has earned a well deserved reputation as being a troublesome and temperamental secondary process. With decades of experience in the tapping and drilling field APA has mastered the art of tapping and drilling.

No More Headaches!
What this means to you is that the one time headache of getting all of your parts tapped with high quality, strong threads can be eliminated with one phone call to Automated Production Assemblies.
APA has simplified the tapping process. Most metal parts that require tapped holes can be easily tooled to be tapped at a very high rate. Our in-house tool room and our CNC waterjet cutting machine, allows us to create complex, precision holding and clamping fixtures quickly and affordably. Our expertise allows us to thread each and every hole with high quality threads that will meet all of industries demands.

If the Part is Not Tapped, the Machine Stops
Each of our precision lead-screw tapping machines has a tap stoke sensor that will not let the machine continue unless the part is fully threaded. This ensures that every part is completely tapped.
Many manufactures turn to APA is because they are experiencing difficulties tapping and drilling the parts themselves. When your in-house tapping operation isn’t creating the quality and repeatability that you require call APA. Your tapping and drilling problems will disappear. After seeing the low price (usually pennies a part) and consistent quality of APA, the common response is, “Why didn’t we call APA sooner?”

In-Die Tapping or Secondary Process?
Another common practice, besides doing the tapping and drilling in your facility, is in-die tapping. In-die tapping has definitely become more reliable and less expensive that it was just a few years ago. However, it may not be the best choice for some parts. In–die tapping still requires a lot of space in the die. Larger dies and larger presses will require more time and expense.
Tapping of holes can be temperamental. Changing the RPM can greatly improve thread quality and tap life. Slowing the in-die tapper can be tricky. It may require expensive components to be replaced on the unit. It also may require the presses stroke to be lengthened or slowed-down. Both changes can effect part quality and cycle time. This can create quality problems.
In-die tapping will require added expense from added maintenance staff and time, spare parts for the in-die tapping unit when it breaks-down, and replacement taps for when the taps wear or shatter.



Contact Automated Production Assemblies (APA) for all your tapping and drilling jobs.

We can be contacted at this link.

Or at
1-586-293-3990
Fax 586-293-3616

Automated Production Assemblies
33957 Doreka
Fraser MI 48026


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