Both joining methods have their place, but it seems few engineers know brazing is an economical method for making strong, permanent metal joints. Engineers have an impressive array of ways to join two ...

Permanent joining creates a lasting bond between materials, often stronger than the materials themselves, using methods like soldering, brazing, and welding. Soft soldering joins metal parts using a ...

Clinching is a sheet metal joining process that has been used for decades. It offers a fast, clean way to join metal parts without welding or screws. In this article, we share clinching 101 knowledge ...

How to fasten sheet-metal parts without fastening hardware. Folding and adding bending tabs is one of the easiest and most economical way of making moderately strong joints in sheet-metal parts that ...

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Spot welding looks simple and easy until your products fall apart while being delivered to the job site. When that happened to one contractor several years ago, spot welding suddenly took on a whole ...

FlexHyJoin demonstrates a mass production process for producing a thermoplastic composite roof stiffener with welded metal brackets for assembly into a metal body-in-white, like that of the project’s ...