Aluminium stamping: formability and tooling considerations
Aluminium stamping design rules: alloy and temper choice, die clearance, blanking tonnage, pickup, earing and the springback that opens a bend.
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Sheet metal manufacturing guides
The engineering behind stamped, laser-cut, formed, welded and coated parts: tolerances, tooling, coating failures and what a drawing needs before it can be quoted. Written and reviewed inside the Ganesh plants.
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Copper and brass pressed components
How copper and brass pressed components behave under a press: alloy and temper, blanking tonnage, die clearance, galling, burr limits and inspection evidence.
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How to design drawn cups and housings
Blank diameter, draw ratio and punch radius decide whether a cup draws in one hit or tears. A worked example, material limits and the tonnage it needs.
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Blanking, piercing and forming: what each operation does
Blanking cuts the outline, piercing cuts the holes, forming moves the metal. The force, clearance and tolerance each operation needs, with worked numbers.
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Common Stamping Defects and Their Causes
Splits, wrinkles, earing, twisted flanges and growing burrs: how to read a stamping defect back to its physical cause and fix the right variable.
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How to inspect stamped parts for repeat production
Build a repeatable stamped part inspection plan: which characteristics to measure, how to set sampling in strokes not hours, and when Cpk beats counting.
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Progressive die maintenance and tool life
Set sharpening intervals from your own regrind history, read burr height before dimensions move, and know how many grinds a die block can take.
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Transfer tooling from an existing supplier: a checklist
How to move a press tool between suppliers: what to audit, what to take with it, the shut-height and capability checks, and when a new tool is cheaper.
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Stamping tolerances for automotive and industrial brackets
What a press tool actually holds on a bracket, how the tolerance stack builds across bends, and which dimensions belong on the drawing.
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The guides follow the same questions as the free tools. Size a press, check a bend, estimate a cut part or build the RFQ pack.
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