Question: My co-workers and I have been reading your columns to help us understand what tooling our shop will need to avoid overstressing our materials with small dies. We air bend our ...

If you want to form a piece of sheet metal into a shape, you’ll probably think about using a die. That’s certainly a great way to do it, but it presupposes you can create or purchase the die, which ...

So you want to press form some sheet metal? Maybe creating an oldschool road sign or similar? Like in this picture: That is what this tool is for. It takes a black and white image as input, and ...

Urethane pads provide a soft yet resilient forming surface, reducing marking on the sheet metal. Last month, we examined urethane and its properties, including its durometer, a measure of its hardness ...

Abstract: Multi-point forming (MPF) is a flexible forming method for sheet metal parts. It uses two reconfigurable pin groups which function as the stamping dies to form sheet. The height of each ...

VASTERAS, Sweden, July 14, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ITP Aero, a world leader in the aviation and industrial engines market, has installed a high pressure sheet hydroform press from Quintus ...

There are many types of metals and alloys that come in the form of sheets and are used in manufacturing processes. The right choice of material for a fabrication depends largely on its final ...