Press brake tooling includes dies and punches used with a press brake to form, bend or flatten sheet metal. Press brake tools are used in conjunction with a press brake, which operates are heavy boom ...

Rather than rush out and buy tooling, he decided to 3D print his own instead! The press brake tools were printed on a standard Prusa i3, using regular PLA filament. There’s nothing particularly ...

He spent decades as a lean manufacturing consultant, most recently with the Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership (OMEP) ...

To be sure, no matter what tooling you throw at it, a bench vise is a poor substitute for a real press brake. Such machine tools are capable of working sheet metal and other stock into intricate ...

Precision air bending is used in applications needing tighter tolerances, however, a CNC press brake and precision-ground tooling are required. Precision air bending can produce bends with accuracy ...