Metal fabrication in Adelaide is a blanket term collectively used for several types of fabrication processes. Fabricators use these processes to shape, cut, or mould raw metal material into a final product.
The fabrication process produces the final product.. Or it can produce parts for use in completing the products.
Based on the material used and desired end product, the fabrication manufacturing process differs. It is very much useful in making mass products as well as custom designs. In any situation, the fabrication process can use a variety of metals, such as stainless steel, carbon steel, copper, brass, and aluminum.
In industrial metal fabrication services in Adelaide, A1Anco Engineering uses one or more methods are used for making finished products.
fabrication techniques for metals
Cutting
The cutting of a metal workpiece is a fabrication technique in which the metal is split or cut into smaller sections. Fabricators usually begin the fabrication process with cutting. In some cases, cutting alone completes the process. The old days of cutting methods have been replaced by modern forms of cutting that use state-of-the-art machinery. From power tools to computer numerical computer (CNC) cutters to laser cutting, waterjet cutting, power scissors, and plasma arc cutting; there are many methods.
Forming
Forming is one of the metal fabrication services that bends or distorts metal to produce various components and parts. Fabricators also form metal using rolling techniques, which is a compressive method that is done using CNC press brakes. During the process of forming, the metal material does not lose its mass, only it changes its form.
Punching
Fabricators use punch presses to create holes in metal. It is done by using mechanical devices or machines. Smaller fabrication shops traditionally performed punching manually using mechanical punch presses. They were smaller and can be hand-powered. In large-scale fabrication operations, industrial CNC-programmed presses are used. They can produce complex designs at the greater output to meet both light metalwork as well as heavy.
Shearing
Fabricators use shearing to trim or remove unwanted metal.
Stamping
Like punching, stamping creates an indentation instead of a hole. Here, a turret presses against the metal forcing the die to stamp the desired thing on the metal. It could be shapes, letters, or images. It is used in coining, blanking, or four-slide forming.
Welding
Welding joins two or more pieces of metal together using a combination of heat and pressure. The metals may vary in shape or size.