TriparTech Guides
Engineering guides for sheet metal fabrication and design
Steels: Not all are created equal (& intentionally so!)
As this subject is vast, this TriparTech will focus on the principal varieties of steel strip (coil) and sheets and their uses in thicknesses up…
TriparTech: Galvanized & Galvannealed Steel 101
This TriparTech provides the benefits and limitations of these of Galvanized & Galvanneal Steel, both are commonly available in sheet or coil form in a…
TriparTech: Pre Finished Material
This TriparTech gives an overview of all the characteristics and advantages of Pre Finished Materials, such as offering savings in the manufacturing process, transportation &…
Knockouts 101
This TriparTech provides an overview of knockout requirements in luminaires, which are governed by UL1598, Standard for Safety for Luminaires….
Sheet Metal Fasteners
This TriparTech on other sheet metal joining options called Fasteners….
TriparTech: Clinch Joining
This TriparTech gives an overview, plus advantages and disadvantages of Clinch Joining, which is a process used to join two pieces of sheet metal sheet…
10 Tips to Optimize Your Sheet Metal Designs (DFM Part 1)
Poor designs are costly. In this OEM guide, we cover the dos and don’ts of optimizing your sheet metal components….
TriparTech: Design for Manufacturability, Part 2
After publishing “Design for Manufacturability, Part I: Tolerance Tolerant Design” in October 2019, Tripar is pleased to publish a follow on to this with “Design…
Tripar Default Manufacturing Tolerances
Have a sheet metal project in mind? Not sure what tolerances to use? Don’t worry. Here are some basic tolerances you can use to build…
Sheet Metal Design: What is the K-factor?
Introduction One of the phenomena sheet metal fabricators must contend when bending parts is something called bending allowance. The reason for this is that when…
Benefits of Punch/Laser Combination Machines
The two main operations required to fabricate any part from sheet metal are: 1. Cutting the flat development, 2. Forming if/as required. The two operations…
TriparTech: Hybrid Manufacturing, Options to Metal Fabrication vs Metal Stamping
Sheet Metal fabricated parts can be produced by many processes. The two broad methods are metal stamping and metal fabrication. To understand where each comes…