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Within aerospace manufacturing, a wide variety of heavy-duty, metal forming, hydraulic presses are required to bend, form, bond, or straighten aluminum, Titanium, and alloys into structures and components such as fuselages, spars, and airframes.
Metal Forming: An Expert Survey of the Key Equipment and Processes Partnering with a metal forming professional provides manufacturers with the specialized equipment and expertise required to customize the process By: Del Williams
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ithin the metal forming industry, a wide variety of heavy-duty, metal forming, hydraulic presses with capacities of 10,000 tons or more are required to bend, form, bond, or straighten aluminum, Titanium, and alloys into structures and components. On the production floor, specialized machines such as stretch forming presses, hot stretch straighteners, contour rolls, superplastic forming presses, diffusion bonding presses, and powdered metal compaction presses are often required to manufacture to custom metal forming specifications under process-specific applications of pressure and temperature.
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Because these machines are customized and require precise controls and processes to reliably achieve the specified final product, partnering with a manufacturer with deep expertise in such metal forming is frequently essential for success. “A custom-engineered machine and control solution is often required when precise control of position, axis synchronization, force, and heat and force is essential for the forging\forming process," says Bill Goodwin, Vice President of Sales and Engineering at Erie Press Systems, a company that manufactures customengineered hydraulic presses for applications including metal forming, stretch forming, composite compression molding
