Sustainability & Metals
- Extremely Sustainable
- Infinitely recyclable without losing any of their properties
Manufacturing with Metals
- Vehicles
- Bicycles
- Lamps
- Street Furniture
- Tools
- Laptops
- White Goods
Manufacturing Methods
- Extrusion
- Panel Beating
- Pressing
- Spinning
- Rolling
- Forging
- Cutting/Joining
- Casting
Panel Beating
- Dishing using a sandbag
- Curving using an English Wheel
- Chasing Shapes on a former
Advantages of Panel Beating
- Fast set up time
- Very low tooling costs
- Suitable for single or small batch production
- complex non-symmetrical 3d forms possible
Disadvantages
- Old fashioned
- Very slow
- Requires very skilled workforce
- Not suitable for mass production
Sheet Metal Pressing
Flywheel Press
Hydraulic Press
Can be used for:
- Punching
- Blanking
- Slitting
- Forming
- Deep Drawing
Blanking
Blanking – Keep the part you punch out
Metal Slitting (Piercing)
- CNC Turret Punch Press – patterns
CNC Turret Punch Press
- Much faster than traditional punch press
- Automatic sheet handling
- Largest turrets can contain up to 50 different punch and die sets
- Programmable for complex hole patterns
- Low tooling
Press Forming
- Used to create complete component parts
Press Forming: Deep Drawing (for example for saucepans)
Advantages:
- Very high accuracy and precision
- Very High production rates possible
- Does not require a highly skilled workforce
- Suitable for high volume mass production
- Complex non-symmetrical forms possible
Disadvantages:
- Expensive initial set up
- Very high complex tooling cost
- Not suitable for one off or customised production.
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