Sheet Metal Tooling Operation

Press working operations or sheet metal operations.

Sheet metal tooling operation.

The most comment tools are used for sheet metal working are punch and die. And the punch is hit at the other end of the sheet producing a shearing effect. Ironing is the operation of thinning the side walls and increasing the height. Theory of press tool stamping process.

Our tube bending capabilities span round rectangular and square tubes. It leaves a lean edge on the piece of metal is sheared or cut. The material is subjected to both compressive and tensile stresses. The die and punch set used is similar to that of drawing operation except that the clearance between the die and punch is smaller than that used in the drawing operation.

Here punching operation and blanking operation comes under cutting or shearing operations whereas deep drawing and bending operations come under forming operations. In this operation a sheet metal workpiece is placed or kept between two dies from one end. Sheet metal cutting operations in a stamping work is a shearing process. From 1 2 od to 6 od we have tooling to handle it all.

Bending causes no change in the thickness of the sheet metal. Cutting and forming thin sheets of metal usually performed as cold working sheet metal 0 4 1 64 to 6 mm 1 4in thick plate stock 6 mm thick advantage high strength good dimensional accuracy good surface finish economical mass production low cost. It is a cut in a straight line across a strip sheet or bar. There is a small clearance between punch and die.

As the punch touches the sheet metal and travels downwards it pushes the material into the die opening. Offset tooling allows two v bends to be formed closer together than regular press brake dies would allow. Bending of tube stock. This type of bend is also commonly referred to as a jog.

During bending operation the metal on the inner side of the neutral plane is compressed and the metal on the outer side of the neutral plane is stretched. Sheet bending is defined as the straining of the metal around a straight axis. This creates a z shaped profile in the sheet metal. The two basic forms of offset tooling are spring up and horizontal.

Sheet metal cutting operations simply put cutting operations cause the sheet metal to be stressed beyond its ultimate strength therefore breaking its structure and separating into different parts. Punch is located at upper side of the sheet and die is at lower side.