This class describes key factors that affect a bending operation on the press brake and also surveys the common types of forming and bending operations. Includes an Interactive Lab.
Course Objectives:
- Describe forming
- Describe the forces that bend a workpiece
- Describe yield strength
- Describe tensile strength
- Describe the basic geometry of a bend
- Describe springback
- Describe the significance of grain direction
- Describe the significance of bend sequence and bend clearance
- List common types of forming
- Describe air bending
- Describe bottom bending
- List common types of bends
- List common types of upper die tooling
- List common types of lower die tooling
- Describe possible bend defects.
Recommended Background
- Recommended for tool and die makers and designers, die engineers, sheet metal product designers, sheet metal product release engineers, operators, managers, purchasing, stamping manufacturers, plant managers, and anyone who is a practitioner of formability measurements for formability improvement.
Course ID
TU237
Skill Focus
Beginner
Instructor(s)
Tooling U - SME
Employee Type
New Applicants, Operations team, 1st level supervisor
Method of Delivery
Online
Estimated Effort
2 hrs
Cost
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