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ASHRAE: An acronym for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Assembling: A process done by welding, binding with adhesives and bending in the form of a crimped seam
Band saws: A tool that has special hardened blades that are capable of feeding sheet metal to ensure even cutting
Base metal: The metal to be welded or cut
Bending: A process done by hammering or via press brakes
Blanking: A part is cut out of the sheet metal, and the material around the part is discarded
CAD design: An acronym for computer-aided design
Chop saws: A tool that has an abrasive disk specifically designed for cutting sheet metal
CNC cutters: An acronym for computer numerical computer cutters; the automation of machine tools that are operated by precisely programmed commands encoded on a computer instead of operated manually by hand wheels or levers
Cutting: A process done by sawing, shearing, or chiseling with manual and power tools, or torching with hand-held plasma torches using CNC cutters like lasers
Cutting torches: A tool that is capable of cutting large sections of sheet metal with little effort
Die cutting: A process that cuts metal pieces without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting; also known as shearing
Fab shops: An abbreviation for fabrication shops
Hydraulic breaks: A tool that simplifies the fabrication process by creating bends at predetermined angles
Hydroforming: A forming and fabricating process that uses a specialized type of die molding that utilizes highly pressurized fluid to shape metals like steel, stainless steel, copper, aluminum and brass
Metal punching: When metal fabrication equipment punches holes, louvers or a predetermined shape out of sheet metal
Milling: The process of using rotary cutters to remove material from a metal piece advancing in a direction at an angle with the axis of a tool
Oxy-acetylene torch: A tool used to straighten significantly warped steel in a slow, linear fashion
Press brake: A tool for bending sheet and plate metal
Roll forming: A constant bending process in which sheet metal, coil, bar or strips of metal pass through rolls that form the metal
Sheet metal fabrication: The process of cutting, shearing, rolling, bending and punching sheet metal to fabricate parts and pieces
SMACNA: An acronym for the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors National Association
Stamping: A high production process in which single or multiple punches, bends and embossing are performed at one time or in a progressive die
Welding: The main focus of sheet metal fabrication; a process of using a blow torch or electric arc to join together two or more metal pieces or parts by heating the surfaces of the parts to the point of melting then uniting them by pressing, hammering or other techniques
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