Micro Sheet Metal Forming

Combination shear and bending brake for precision sheet metal and circuit board fabricationthis double featured miniature machine will save you hours of tedious sheet metal fabrication and finishing.

Micro sheet metal forming.

The micro forming or laser micro deep drawing is defined as the production of sheet metal with range in sub millimeter at least two dimensional part to be make in this process. This open access book contains the research report of the collaborative research center micro cold forming sfb 747 of the university of bremen germany. Set bends strip stock up to 1 32 inch thick and wire up to 3 32 inch. Micro metals is a highly automated manufacturer of custom metal products.

Pro tech produces products ranging from micro miniature thru large table top size metal components. The topical research focus lies on new methods and processes for a mastered mass production of micro parts which are smaller than 1mm by forming in batch size higher than one million. Welcome to micro metals inc. Soft copper brass aluminum and tinplate sheet up to.

A micro part concerned with small sub millimeters until few millimeters with in typical part dimension. Deviation of the punch force in mechanical deep drawing with 5 mm punch diameter fig. Precision sheet metal fabrication. Operating out of a modern facility in colorado springs micro metals has been a single source supplier of precision parts to companies for more than 42 years.

Sheet metal components are used extensively in various applications such as vehicles aircraft electronics products medical implants and packaging for consuming goods typical parts components including car panels aircraft skins cans for food and drinks frames for tv computer screens monitors displays etc. The strange looking plier at the top of the photo will even bend hardened music wire. Traditionally sheet metal forming may be effected either with mechanical presses or hydraulic presses in which latter are usually of large scale. In macro scale forming the tool and workpiece geometries are much larger than the surficial asperities.

However with the reduction of forming scale the thickness of sheet metal in the presented micro roll forming process is 100 μm and the geometric dimensions of the micro channel are in sub millimeter scale. Metal forming plier set bends any shape you needour set will make loops rings s c z l and just about any other shape. The upper section is equipped with a sharp 7 1 2 inch wide shear that smoothly cuts plastic and circuit board stock up to 1 16 inch thick. These presses are usually not of sufficient precision for micro forming applications and they are not compatible in terms of the scale for the forming of the miniature micro sheet metal parts.

Sheet metal micro forming f. Size effects in mechanical deep drawing if the punch force is normalized by the diameter of the punch the sheet thickness and the flow stress f p d s 0 k f.