Norck provides extremely reliable, top quality, and fast sheet metal fabrication services such as sheet metal cutting, stamping, bending, blanking/punching, deep drawing, shearing, edge bending, and squeezing for industries including aerospace, defense, robotics, industrial, automotive and many others. Our team of highly qualified engineers and cutting-edge facilities will provide you with quality products with the quickest turnaround time at a competitive price. Whether you have high volume production projects or rapid protototyping needs, Norck can manage it with the results better than expectations.

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Sheet metal shearing is a versatile manufacturing process that cuts sheet metal into specific sizes or shapes. It can be used to make straight lines or more complex shapes. Cutting is similar to scissors, where the punch cuts down onto the die to cut through the metal sheet.

Shearing machines can be hand-operated, mechanical, or hydraulic, and they are used to cut different thicknesses of metal sheets. It can be used in several applications, including automotive, aerospace, construction, etc.

The sheet metal shearing process can be used in several industries, such as:

  •   Construction: Bending components for construction projects such as roofing and siding
  •   Automotive: Bending sheet metal for use in body parts such as doors, hoods, and fenders
  •  Aerospace: Bending sheet metal for use in the manufacturing of fuselage, doors, and fenders
  •  Advertising: Bending sheet metal for signage and advertising, including signs and billboards
  •   Food processing: Bending sheet metal for beverages, kitchen equipment
  •   Transportation: Bending sheet metal parts for cars, trains, buses, and aircraft
  •   Art: Bending sheet metal for use in building cladding

Shearing is done using a blade, the cutting tool, and a fixed lower blade upon which the sheet metal is clamped. The upper blade is fixed on a ram powered by a hydraulic or mechanical system. And the lower blade is located on the bed of the shearing machine.

Loading the sheet metal: The process begins by placing the metal sheet on the bed of the shearing machine. The bed usually has guides and clamps to secure the workpiece during cutting. The sheet metal is aligned so that the cutting blade makes contact with the sheet metal at the desired cutting line.

Cutting: Next, the ram moves the upper blade towards the lower blade, cutting through the metal sheet. The distance between the blades is calculated depending on the thickness and material of the workpiece.

Unloading: After the cut is made, the metal is removed from the shearing machine.

Deburring: The resulting sheet metal edge has a slightly burred finish, which deburring or other finishing processes can remove. Some parts might require finishing processes such as laser cutting to deburr the edges of the workpiece, painting, or anodizing to modify its appearance and mechanical properties

Norck, a leading manufacturing company driven by technology, high quality data and artificial intelligence, focuses on manufacturing excellent quality of sheet metal parts, custom parts and components, a wide range of 3D printed parts and moldings. It is a single source for a wide of range of companies around the world for their need of sheet metal fabrication, CNC machining, 3D printing, and molding. 

Besides its own production capacity, Norck’s ability access to a huge amount of manufacturing capacity of its top quality partners across Europe and the U.S allows it to provide its customers with low and high volume production, rapid prototyping and a wide range of manufacturing services from sheet metal fabrication to 3D printing.

Norck’s data-driven AI approach to manufacturing maximizes its overall product and service quality, while minimizing the overall cost of its parts and services. This leads to high quality products, better inventory programs for our customers worldwide, better visibility for supply chain management.

Norck’s team of manufacturing engineers, mechnical engineers, quality engineers, supply chain engineers, industrial designers, artificial intelligence engineers, data scientists, and software application developers work in a unique and coherent way to provide your company with high quality manufacturing parts and services, better design for manufacturability and all driven by data and artificial intelligence.

As a single source for all your manufacturing needs, Norck minimizes your overhead cost, diversifies your supply chain, improves your parts’ design for manufacturability, significantly improves the quality of services and parts you outsource, minimizes suppliers’ risks, improves your purchasing power, and provides the goods and services with a philosophy of just in time.