This article was originally published Sept. 21, 2016. It was updated Feb. 2, 2023. Engineers designing sheet metal parts and products are often unaware of the difficulties or impossible tasks their ...

If you have ever looked closely at a typical mass-produced automobile, you will be familiar with pressed-steel panels. Complex curves can be repeated thousands of times over, by putting a sheet of ...

Charles R. Goulding and Andressa Bonafe examine how Johnson & Johnson’s spin-off of DePuy Synthes sets the stage for a more agile, 3D printing–driven orthopaedics powerhouse ready to redefine surgical ...

Bending technology is often associated with various processes and machines employed in sheet metal fabrication. Such machines include both press brakes and panel benders, but press brakes are the most ...