I have been involved in many metalworking plants, and structural steel fabrication, along with miscellaneous steel, but would like insights in so called "heavy fabrication" material handling, fixturing protocols, special welding tecniques, and machining (boring) large items.
How would I go...
We are machinery fabricators. We sub out our sheet metal layouts due to lack of equipment. I am looking to purchase either a CNC Laser or CNC Punching machine.
We process 48 x 120 sheets of 11 ga. 304-stainless and up to .500 in. mild steel sheets.
I tend to think a punch for 11 ga. would be...