Category: Machine Tools

Yielding to More Efficient Metal Cutting In metal fabrication, the term “material yield” can mean a couple of different things. Regarding processes like metal bending, rolling, pressing, and forging, the concept of material yield strength is important to understand. Yield strength is the maximum amount of force that a material can endure before undergoing plastic […]

The ABCs of Metal Bending The fab shop owner came back to the dinner table after having taken a phone call from his assistant manager. “Sorry for the interruption,” he told his family. “Our new operator is used to bottoming and coining, so we have to train him to do air bending.” “Bottoming? That sounds […]

Stick That on Your Pipe and Rotate It The process of welding goes back a few thousand years before pipe rotators to the beginning of humankind learning to forge metal, while the notion of fixturing a workpiece that is to be welded dates to the time when the earliest blacksmiths started using anvils and tongs. […]