Press Working Operations

The commonly used press work operations are as follows

Blanking.
In blanking the cut out piece is the desired part. In this case punch is made smaller in size
and the die is made of exact size clearance is thus provided on punch as shown in Fig.

S = Size of work piece

C = Clearance
Die size S = Size of work piece
Punch size = S2C

Piercing
In case of piercing the cut out part is waste and left out piece is of importance. In
Piercing the punch is made of exact size and die is made of bigger size as shown in Fig...
Punch size = size
Die size = size + 2C
Thus clearance is given on the die.

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Where C = Clearance
= 3% to 8% of material thickness.

In this operation the cut out part from the material strip is waste, hole left in the strip being
required

Notching
This operation is used to remove small amount of metal from the edges of the metallic

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strip.

Lancing
It is a combined bending and cutting operation.

Drawing: It is used to manufacture cup-shaped components.

Cutting off:
This operation is used to separate the work material along a straight line in a single line cut).