Sheet Metal Prototyping Technology In Components Production

Manufacturing industry is changing rapidly and prototyping with rapid manufacturing technologies is a part of the everyday business in many enterprises and sheet metal prototypes are used efficiently as part of the production development process. 

Sheet metal prototyping technology has traditionally been an area where prototyping has been extremely expensive and efficient options for low volume production have been limited. Producing complicated geometries has also been difficult. 

The sheet metal prototyping technologies have developed rapidly recently. New methods enable forming of complicated geometries, and short series with less cost. Some of the methods are still quite up-to-date, some have been used for a while, but the industry’s awareness of these methods should be enhanced. 

This can give information on available methods to produce low volume sheet metal prototyping products. The focus has been on cost efficient methods that are flexible enough to produce different product geometries within short times.