Use this machinery knowledge hub to compare equipment before requesting a technical quotation. The current guides explain how to choose press brake tonnage, frame and controller and the practical differences between a CNC and NC press brake. New articles focus on selection questions that can be checked against drawings, material, thickness, bend length and production requirements.
For machine-specific information, start with the press brake range or browse all sheet metal machinery. Published guides are educational and do not replace the signed machine specification: controller, axes, capacity, tolerances and included options must be confirmed for the selected configuration.
A press brake may be rated at 100 tons, 200 tons, or 500 tons—but the machine's rated tonnage alone does not tell you whether it can bend a particular sheet. If you have a drawing in front of you, the real question is usually much simpler: Can my press brake bend this material, at this thickness and bend length, with the tooling I have?
Your laser cutter follows the programmed dimensions, but the finished part is still slightly undersized or oversized. One possible cause is laser cutting kerf: the narrow slot of material removed by the cut. Its width depends on the optics, focus position, material, thickness, assist gas and cutting conditions. This guide explains how to measure kerf, check taper and apply compensation without changing the nominal part drawing.
Plate rolling machine capacity chart by model row: bending thickness, pre-bending thickness, working length and drive power for W11, W11S and W12 from 4 mm x 1500 mm to 60 mm x 3100 mm, with width caps and the 245 MPa basis.
Plate rolling machine types from the BEIGEMA catalogue: mechanical W11 3-roll, hydraulic W11S upper-roller and W12 4-roll compared by thickness, pre-bending, width and power, with the W24S/WYQ24 profile bender boundary and the slip-roll limit.
Shearing machine capacity chart from the BEIGEMA spec tables: QC11Y guillotine 6-40 mm and QC12K swing beam 6-12 mm by bed length, with strokes, backgauge, angle, throat and motor for every tier, plus the 12 mm overlap choice.
The metal shear types mapped to the BEIGEMA catalogue: QC11Y guillotine 6-40 mm, QC12K swing beam 6-12 mm and ironworker shear stations, with a stroke and motor comparison table.
See how a steel plate guillotine and swing beam handle stainless steel and aluminum sheet, with the QC12K tensile-strength column, QC11Y and QC12K capacity tables and blade-clearance basics.
Portable laser welder guide built on the BM handheld table: 1000w, 1500w or 2000w source, 0.5-6 mm steel and 0.5-4 mm aluminum, wire feed, shielding gas, cooling.
Small bending brake models from BEIGEMA spec tables: pure electric 35T 1350, WC67K 40/2200 NC and MB8 63T CNC compared by bed, throat, stroke and footprint.