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Sheet metal, explained by the people who make it

377 guides on stamping, laser cutting, bending, welding, coating and the parts we build for lift, power, data centre, railway and farm equipment. Every article is reviewed by the engineering team before it is published.

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32Stamping, presses and press toolsPressed, punched and deep drawn sheet metal parts, the tooling that makes them, and the DFM rules that decide whether a part suits a press at all.29Laser cutting and sheet metal fabricationFibre laser cutting, nesting, edge quality, tolerance and the cost drivers behind a cut part, including long panels cut on the 40 ft × 16 ft bed.38Bending, welding and finished assembliesPress brake bending, bend allowance, fixtures, robotic MIG welding, distortion control and the tolerances a finished welded assembly can actually hold.28Surface treatment and powder coatingSeven-tank pretreatment, phosphating, shot blasting, powder and wet paint selection, film thickness and the failure modes that show up two monsoons later.22Elevator and lift componentsCounterweight frames, car frames, slings, guide rail brackets, door panels and controller enclosures made to lift OEM drawings.24Genset, canopy and acoustic enclosuresDG set canopies, acoustic panels, louvres, base frames, skid bases and control panel enclosures, engineered for weather, access and noise.28Data centre racks and electrical enclosures19-inch rack frames, mounting rails, perforated doors, blanking panels, PDU brackets and the electrical enclosures around them.16Tractor, forklift and material handlingTractor panels and brackets, forklift overhead guards, counterweight covers, mast parts and material handling components built for vibration and abuse.16Railway, furniture and infrastructureRailway coach panels, underframe brackets, fittings, metal furniture frames, shelving and signage, where standards and traceability carry as much weight as the part.38Materials and gradesGrade selection for CRCA, stainless, aluminium, brass and copper: formability, thickness, corrosion and what the mill certificate actually guarantees.30Standards and complianceWhich standard applies, what it actually covers, and the evidence a buyer should ask for: ISO, IEC, EN, RDSO and material certification.44Design and CADDesign rules, CAD hand-off, bend allowances, tolerance stacks and the drawing notes that decide whether a part is made right first time.4Applications and casesApplication-led problems from lift shafts, genset sites, data halls, railway coaches, farms and warehouses, and how the part is designed around them.28Plant, quality and sustainabilityHow the plants run: quality systems, inspection, calibration, pretreatment chemistry, effluent, maintenance, energy and scrap.

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GANESH MULTITECH · ENGINEERING DRAWING SETGM-PLA-634RFQ PACKCONTAINER · FOB → DAPINSPECTIONLANDED COSTFOBgoods at portCIF+ freight + insuranceDUTYon CIF valueDAPlanded at siteLANDED COSTSUPPLY CHAINLEAD TIMEDRAWING PACKSHIPMENTDUTY ON CIFRFQ FIELDS8DOCSmill cert + CoCTERMSIncoterms 2020PROCESS ROUTERFQDFMQUOTETRANSFERSHIPPART / PROCESSPLANT QUALITY SUSTAINABILITYMATERIAL / FINISHCRCA · STAINLESS · ALUMINIUMSCALE 1:1 · REV A · ISO 9001 / 14001GANESHMULTITECH.COM/BLOGDRAWN IN-HOUSE · NOT TO SCALE
Plant and quality

Gauge selection: choosing the right instrument for the tolerance

Gauge selection is arithmetic: resolution at a tenth of the tolerance band, uncertainty at a quarter. What fits a ±0.5 mm call, and where a caliper stops.

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GANESH MULTITECH · ENGINEERING DRAWING SETGM-DAT-77019 IN · 42U RACK FRAMESTATIC LOADRAIL DETAILRAIL HOLE PATTERN · 44.45 mmEIA-310 · IEC 60297-3-100482.6 mm42UU PITCHRAILMASKED BONDRACK WIDTH482.6 mmHOLE PITCH44.45 mmCOATINGmasked bondsPROCESS ROUTECUTFORMWELDCOATASSEMBLEPART / PROCESSDATA CENTRE RACKS ENCLOSURESMATERIAL / FINISHCRCA · STAINLESS · ALUMINIUMSCALE 1:1 · REV A · ISO 9001 / 14001GANESHMULTITECH.COM/BLOGDRAWN IN-HOUSE · NOT TO SCALE
Racks and enclosures

Bending for rack frames and cabinets: 19-inch geometry

How bend position and radius set 19-inch rack geometry: rail pitch, rack-unit alignment, door fit, earthing and the coating spec a data centre buyer asks for.

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GANESH MULTITECH · ENGINEERING DRAWING SETGM-PLA-847RFQ PACKCONTAINER · FOB → DAPINSPECTIONLANDED COSTFOBgoods at portCIF+ freight + insuranceDUTYon CIF valueDAPlanded at siteLANDED COSTSUPPLY CHAINLEAD TIMEDRAWING PACKSHIPMENTDUTY ON CIFRFQ FIELDS8DOCSmill cert + CoCTERMSIncoterms 2020PROCESS ROUTERFQDFMQUOTETRANSFERSHIPPART / PROCESSPLANT QUALITY SUSTAINABILITYMATERIAL / FINISHCRCA · STAINLESS · ALUMINIUMSCALE 1:1 · REV A · ISO 9001 / 14001GANESHMULTITECH.COM/BLOGDRAWN IN-HOUSE · NOT TO SCALE
Plant and quality

Water and rinse management: conductivity and drag-out

Drag-out sets rinse consumption, and conductivity proves the rinse works. Rinse ratios, the two-stage counterflow that gives 99% removal, and limits.

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GANESH MULTITECH · ENGINEERING DRAWING SETGM-RAI-900COACH INTERIOR PANEL · RDSOFIXING CENTRES FROM VEHICLE DATUMPANEL SECTIONPANEL SECTION · FINISHMILL CERT · BATCH TRACEPANEL LENGTHHEIGHTWINDOW CUTFIXINGFILM BUILDEVIDENCEmill certsINSPECTIONin-processFINISHpowder / brushPROCESS ROUTECUTFORMWELDFINISHTRACEPART / PROCESSRAILWAY FURNITURE INFRASTRUCTUREMATERIAL / FINISHCRCA · STAINLESS · ALUMINIUMSCALE 1:1 · REV A · ISO 9001 / 14001GANESHMULTITECH.COM/BLOGDRAWN IN-HOUSE · NOT TO SCALE
Railway and infrastructure

Warehouse shelving deflection: design, failure modes and the fix

Warehouse shelving deflection, not stress, sizes most shelf beams. Here are the limits, the section that meets them at each span, and where strength takes over.

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GANESH MULTITECH · ENGINEERING DRAWING SETGM-STA-541STATION 1 · PIERCESTATION 2 · FORMDEVELOPED BLANK · 2.0 mm CRCADIE SECTIONDIE SECTION · PUNCH / DIE CLEARANCEBLANK LENGTHSTRIP WIDTHPROGRESSIVE STATIONSPILOT HOLESCLEARANCE 5–8% tPRESS RANGE20–300 TPUNCHING250 TTOOLINGin-housePROCESS ROUTECOILBLANKPIERCEFORMINSPECTPART / PROCESSSTAMPING PRESSESMATERIAL / FINISHCRCA · STAINLESS · ALUMINIUMSCALE 1:1 · REV A · ISO 9001 / 14001GANESHMULTITECH.COM/BLOGDRAWN IN-HOUSE · NOT TO SCALE
Stamping

Nibbling and shearing for prototype sheet metal parts

Where nibbling and shearing still beat a fibre laser on one-off parts: shear force, edge quality, burr direction and the jobs each operation is wrong for.

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GANESH MULTITECH · ENGINEERING DRAWING SETGM-SUR-551SUBSTRATE · CRCA / STEELCONVERSION COATINGPOWDER FILM · 50–70 µm1234567SEVEN-TANK PRETREATMENTFILM BUILDFILM BUILDDFT GAUGE · ISO 2409 ADHESIONPART WIDTHDFTPowder filmConversion layer7 TANKSPRETREATMENT7 tankBLAST CHAMBER16 × 16 ftPOWDER BOOTH18 × 14 ftPROCESS ROUTEBLASTDEGREASEPHOSPHATEPOWDERCUREPART / PROCESSSURFACE TREATMENT COATINGMATERIAL / FINISHCRCA · STAINLESS · ALUMINIUMSCALE 1:1 · REV A · ISO 9001 / 14001GANESHMULTITECH.COM/BLOGDRAWN IN-HOUSE · NOT TO SCALE
Coating

Powder booth maintenance: recovery, filters and colour change

Powder booth maintenance that keeps film build stable: face velocity, filter differential pressure, recovery ratio, colour-change sequence and the defects each one prevents.

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GANESH MULTITECH · ENGINEERING DRAWING SETGM-SUR-761SUBSTRATE · CRCA / STEELCONVERSION COATINGPOWDER FILM · 50–70 µm1234567SEVEN-TANK PRETREATMENTFILM BUILDFILM BUILDDFT GAUGE · ISO 2409 ADHESIONPART WIDTHDFTPowder filmConversion layer7 TANKSPRETREATMENT7 tankBLAST CHAMBER16 × 16 ftPOWDER BOOTH18 × 14 ftPROCESS ROUTEBLASTDEGREASEPHOSPHATEPOWDERCUREPART / PROCESSSURFACE TREATMENT COATINGMATERIAL / FINISHCRCA · STAINLESS · ALUMINIUMSCALE 1:1 · REV A · ISO 9001 / 14001GANESHMULTITECH.COM/BLOGDRAWN IN-HOUSE · NOT TO SCALE
Coating

Paint adhesion after welding: why the weld zone fails first

A weld toe that passes on the flat and fails at G3 in the cross-cut. What welding leaves behind, why alkaline cleaning cannot remove it, and the prep that can.

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