What are the different types of sheet metal?
Designers and engineers who need a "red" metal usually choose electrolytically rigid pitch coppe...
05 Jun
Sheet metal Forming
05 Dec
Job shop estimating: Compatibility issues
This edition of Precision Matters continues our detailed examination of estimating as a business...
21 Nov
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, cont...
07 Nov
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 camera...
12 Sep
Sheet metal folding evolves
In the early 1990s a sheet metal bending machine started having an increased presence in the U.S...
05 Sep
The science of bending perforated sheet and tread plate
Tread plate and perforated sheet have bending characteristics that baffle and frustrate. They ju...
13 Jun
Metal folding’s place in the forming department
Walk into most commercial or precision sheet metal operations with CNC metal folders on the floo...
23 May
4 Factors Influencing Cut Edge
4 Factors Influencing Cut Edge Quality (and Why it Matters Anyway)
09 May
Why Metal Fabrication Manufacturing Matters During a Crisis
Every once in awhile, history has a way of reminding us not of our differences, but how much we ...
20 Jan
What sheet metal shops wish you knew: Hems, jogs and forming tools
Fig. 1a The acceptable CAD wo...