Specific machinery is needed to fabricate many of the items that are made out of sheet metal. Tooling is a process used to fabricate items out of sheet metal. Sheet metal is a strong, versatile material that allows people to make durable items in mass quantities. It can be used in so many ways and is very affordable, making it the ideal material for fabricating outdoor items, machinery, and parts for vehicles. The following guide walks you through a few different ways tooling is used on a daily basis for the fabrication of items out of sheet metal.

Hand Braking

Hand brakes are used in tooling to bend metal slightly or dramatically. Being able to bend metal with ease allows people to make simple changes to die casts used to mass produce items. Hand braking helps the creation of new, useful items without a company having to spend a fortune on the changes.

Metal Spinning

Sheet metal spinning allows tubular parts to be made that are needed to create many different pieces of metal equipment. The machine used for metal spinning is quite small and the operation can be learned within a matter of just a few hours and allows for delicate details to be added to a piece within a matter of just a few seconds.

Metal Stamping

Stamping designs on sheet metal are often created using specific machines designed to provide just the right amount of pressure to create the desired design. The designs that are stamped into metal by a machine often use computer systems for operation because they must be so intricate. When slight variations to the pieces are needed, they can be made with ease by simply changing a few details to the programing in the computer.

Laser Cutting

There are many specific programs available that allow companies to have items created with pinpoint accuracy. In order to get the items created, a company simply needs to provide the manufacturing company with an image and detailed measurements for the items they need to have created. The manufacturing company will be able to make the exact item they need in a fraction of the time it would take for it to be created by hand.

Tooling allows for many things to be made from sheet metal with less difficulty than when items were made by hand. Computer systems now allow for simple changes to be made to items as needed to make manufacturing of precision sheet metal to go faster than ever before.