Folded sheet metal work
Folded sheet metal work
What might seem at a first glance to be a simple sheet metal folded bracket is more complex than you think. If you click on the image for an enlargement you can see that aluminium blank has been folded with 5 bends with different angles and different bend radii. The CNC tooling in the background was our Trumpf tooling used on once of our Trumpf 7036 CNC press brakes. The Trumpf 7036 is so flexible when it comes to folding sheet metal components that a range of bend radii, bend lengths and bend angles can all be produced with the same tooling. Just by programming different lengths and angles into the folding machine control a complex sheet metal component can be produced quite easily.
Folded sheet metal components
Folded sheet metal components
Here is a much simpler folded sheet metal component. If is an aluminium angle bracket that has again been folded on a Trumpf 7036 CNC press brake but this time it just has a single 90 degree bend. A nice touch here is the right hand bottom V block has been raised by a few mm so that it acts as a positioning stop for the operator to bend against. This enables really quick positioning of each part for the bend against the back stop and speeds up the bending operation, saving time and money for the parts manufactured.
If you have any small folded sheet metal components that you need to purchase please let us take a look for you. We are happy to provide prices or design suggestions to reduce the cost of your components in production.