Car Sheet Metal Stamping

Items that we often take for granted such as the flatware we use for eating the pots and pans we cook with and the car we drive are manufactured partially by sheet metal stamping.

Car sheet metal stamping.

Common household items such as washers and dryers are made using a sheet metal stamping process. Stamping also called pressing involves placing flat sheet metal in either coil or blank form into a stamping press. Metal stamping is a cold forming process that makes use of dies and stamping presses to transform sheet metal into different shapes. Sheet metal forming simulation is a technology that calculates the process of sheet metal stamping predicting common defects such as splits wrinkles springback and material thinning.

The male and female molds actually form the shape while the top hat mold holds the base sheet of metal so the stamping process stretches. The automobile factory punches the steel coils out of various types of sheet metal parts such as a five door cover a leaf board a ceiling etc that make up the body through punching equipment such as punch presses and stamping dies. Immediately after the sheet metal parts were sent to the welding shop for body assembly. In the press a tool and die surface form the metal into the desired shape.

Punching blanking bending coining embossing and flanging are all stamping techniques used to shape the metal. Pieces of flat sheet metal typically referred to as blanks is fed into a sheet metal stamping press that uses a tool and die surface to form the metal into a new shape.