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Sheet-metal parts for machinery

Make guards, housings, panels and supports that fit your assemblies. Compare equipment by mounting features, product variants and material flow.

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Application illustration · representative workpieces

Start with the parts you make

Select parts from a complete machine assembly so the relationships between covers, mounting points and service access are visible.

Illustration of a thin folded machine cover with an open underside, service opening and mounting feet.

Machine guards

Define access openings, fixing points, folded edges and the position used to assemble or remove the guard.

Illustration of an empty sheet-metal equipment housing with front mounting flanges and a side opening.

Equipment housings

Review the panel joints, return flanges and the internal clearance needed around the installed components.

Mounting brackets

Identify the datum surfaces and features that locate the bracket in the final assembly.

Illustration of a shallow galvanized mounting tray with folded walls, corner reliefs and fixing holes.

Base trays and panels

Check folded depth, interfaces and part handling, together with the variety of sizes used across machine models.

Connect the part to the process

Assembly-critical features

Make the important holes, folds and interfaces explicit on the drawing. A simple outside dimension may not describe what determines assembly fit.

Product variants

Compare common parts across equipment models with the changing dimensions and tool setups required by each variant.

Supplying complete assemblies

Cutting and bending should deliver identifiable parts to the next operation. Include sorting, inspection and handling in the production plan.

Choose the equipment for each task

Create the blank and mounting features, choose forming methods by part family, then verify the assembled interfaces. Discuss automation only for the tasks that repeat reliably.

ADH ULF3015 single-table fiber laser cutting machine

Cut panels and mounting features

Compare laser equipment using the actual material, format, openings and edges needed by the following operation.

Compare laser cutting systems

ADH WAD CNC press brake with front tooling and control panel

Bend guards and supports

Review CNC press brakes against the changing shapes, tool access, backgauge references and support needed for the assembly parts.

Compare CNC press brakes

ADH robotic bending cell with press brake, handling robot and part stations

Evaluate repeated bending tasks

A bending cell comparison includes gripping, reorientation, tool changes, stacking and recovery. Start with representative repeat parts and their exceptions.

Explore bending cells

This page concerns producing components for machinery. The finished machine’s functional performance and any application-specific requirements remain part of its own design and validation.

Start from the assembly drawing

Compare cutting, CNC bending and robotic handling against your assembly drawings, tooling clearance and production flow.