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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...