Forming sheet metal is one of the most critical processes in fabricating and manufacturing parts and components. In sheet metal forming, metals are reshaped in their solid state while they are still ...

How do you use a 3D printer to bend metal? One way would be to take it to a machine shop and offer to trade the owner your printer for some time in their shop. A smarter way is to do like [Jaba 3D], ...

What causes failure in dies and tooling? It’s a function of tool material selection, one expert advised. Metal forming is critical to industrial operations supplying automotive parts and structural ...

Dieless robotic sheet forming is a fully digital process for forming large sheets of metal rapidly into complex contours. Robots fitted with various end effectors work on each side of a suspended ...

While applications vary by industry, quality metal fabrication conforms to several basic rules and requires fundamental processes. While there are many bending solutions and strategies, nothing can ...

This is the final article in our six-part series, and this time we'll cover the versatile world of hammerforming! I'm using the word "hammerforming" in a very particular manner here. Some people think ...

Forming complex shapes in metal sheets is still a laborious process, especially if you aren’t needing more than a couple parts so stamping doesn’t make sense. That may change with Digital Sheet ...

A machine called the “RoboCraftsman” will soon be at work at the University of Dayton, where researchers and engineers are making sure the California-produced, AI-driven tool can produce sheet metal ...

Modern cars are made up of thousands of different parts, and with technology continually evolving, the list of parts also continues to grow. There are millions of vehicles registered each year. Each ...