Design Of Die Making Tools

Introduction

Sheet metal has its own benefits in production. Several products such as household components, decorative articles, indispensable engineering components (whose production through other manufacturing procedure is uneconomical) are made from sheets. The sheet metal operations involve blanking, lancing, piercing, cutting off and parting, shaving, notching, trimming, nibbling etc. The thickness of sheet used in this operation is commonly 20 mm. As far as sheet metal working is concerned, the die design is extremely significant aspect. Many parameters have to be considered although designing the dies for several sheet metal working operations.

Objectives

After studying design of die making tools you should be able to

• know the primary of sheet metal working,
• familiarise yourself with the several sheet metal working operations, and
• understand principles of die design.