Job shop estimating: Compatibility issues
This edition of Precision Matters continues our detailed examination of estimating as a business process. The...
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What sheet metal shops wish you knew: Reasonable tolerances, grain direction, and the base flange
A reader recently asked for guidance in using 3-D CAD for sheet metal parts. This guidance,...
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Panel benders, folding machines, and other alternatives for bending big sheet metal workpieces
A press brake may have sufficient safeguarding, including light curtains on the sides and cameras or...
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Sheet metal folding evolves
In the early 1990s a sheet metal bending machine started having an increased presence in the...
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The science of bending perforated sheet and tread plate
Tread plate and perforated sheet have bending characteristics that baffle and frustrate. They just won’t hold...
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Metal folding’s place in the forming department
Walk into most commercial or precision sheet metal operations with CNC metal folders on the floor...
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4 Factors Influencing Cut Edge
4 Factors Influencing Cut Edge Quality (and Why it Matters Anyway) When cutting metal there’s usually...
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Why Metal Fabrication Manufacturing Matters During a Crisis
Every once in awhile, history has a way of reminding us not of our differences, but...
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What sheet metal shops wish you knew: Hems, jogs and forming tools
The acceptable CAD workflow is to form with the sizes and functions of final products as...
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Hot forming
This process depends on time and temperatures. It is possible to form parts while they are...
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