Awards Winners

The27th award

Sheet Metal Expertise Prize

Sheet Metal Expertise Prize

Sheet metal assemble parts

TANABE METAL TEC

URL http://www.tanabe-mt.co.jp/

Water Mill

●Material Type:SUS304 ●Thickness:1.2/2.0/3.0mm

Left
Mr. Jun Tanabe,
President

Right
Mr. Toshihiko Tsukamoto

We would like to express our gratitude for the honorable “Sheet Metal Expertise Prize” to our “Water Mill”. In designing and creating this product, we had 3 themes, which were “development of new R bend method”, “circularity” and “utilization of YAG welding”.

The R bend process didn’t go as smoothly as we hoped for and it was a repetition of trial and error with the simple laminated tools. We finally somehow managed to make this although we wondered a few times whether we could successfully finish it. Furthermore, we were able to keep he circularity of two round parts as well as the finished product by manufacturing welding jigs. The arc slot shape with steps was fabricated by sheet-metal process instead of machining process by utilizing YAG welding.

The Precision Sheet Metal Technology Fair allows us to try various ideas as lead time and cost generally regulate from trying drastic method in daily production. We would like to utilize this experience on our future work and technical improvement.

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