Norck, a leading digital manufacturing company, provides extremely reliable, top quality, and fast sheet metal fabrication and manufacturing for a wide range of industries including aerospace, defense, robotics,  industrial, automotive, electronics, energy, hardware, and consumer products. 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 prototyping needs, Norck can manage it with the results better than expectations.

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Let’s now give you some insight how Norck fabricates and manufactures sheet metal parts and assemblies.

Sheet metal fabrication is a process that uses sheets of metal (Aluminum, galvanized steel, etc.) to produce metal components that are used as a standalone part or as a part in an assembly. The fabrication process usually includes blanking/punching, shearing, laser/plasma/waterjet cutting, bending, edge bending, forming, deep drawing, and squeezing.

Sheet metal components are used in:

  •   Industrial equipments and machinery
  •   Aircrafts, automotive, railway vehicles, and excavators
  •   Miscellaneous consumer products such as appliances and consumer electronics
  •   Robotics
  •   Military equipments and weaponry systems

Generally, sheet metal fabrication operations are performed as cold. Norck provides sheet metal cutting and forming services with the following processes such as:

Blanking and punching is a process of cutting a workpiece from a sheet metal coil using a press (die). Norck processes sheet metal using punching or blanking methods. In any case, Norck uses BAUCOR branded tools which Norck itself manufactures.

The difference between blanking and punching is the desired result (workpiece/scrap).

Shearing is a process of slicing a sheet metal using a blade which is usually called shear blade. Shearing can be done manually or with a die, which will affect the cut's cost and accuracy. Norck is licensed to manufacture BAUCOR branded industrial blades which includes shear blades. You can check BAUCOR's website here.

Laser cutting is a thermal cutting method that is used to obtain custom flat sheet metal shapes. Accuracy is around ±0.0005inches (±0.01mm) for laser and ±0.0010inches (±0.03mm) for waterjet.

Bending is transforming a flat metal sheet into a V or U-shaped part using a press. These presses can be of various sizes. Norck can bend sheet metal up to 5000 mm depending on the complexity of the shape.

Edge bending is transforming an edge of sheet metal into an angle. Sheet metal is fixed between two die parts, and the free edge is punched to form the desired shape.

Forming / Stamping comprises multiple operations such as blanking, punching, and bending to form a simple or complex shape of sheet metal components. The sheet metal is transformed between a punch and a DIE with male and female shapes of the final workpiece.

In deep drawing, a blank is held between a die and a blank holder, and then it is formed using a punch. The shapes obtained are generally curved parts.

Squeezing is altering the thickness of sheet metal through two cylinders

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.