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Precision Press Brake 1st edition

Precision Press Brake 1st Edition in PDF
Copyright 1999

Presents Introduction to, Intermediate and Advanced Precision Press Brake as a single unit. Instead of being presented as a stand alone text, the same material is separated into three categories: Introduction to, Intermediate, and Advanced precision press brake. And now all three combined into Precision Press Brake!

Written for use in a trade school application, each level is complete onto itself with work questions and answers, problems to be performed at the brake and as applicable, flat blank pieces already laid out and ready to code.

These texts were used to teach press brake at the Oregon Advanced Technology Center and is currently used in many "in house" training program and through classes offered by Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon. These are a few of the places the books are used for classes taught by the author. They are also the basis of many in-house training programs around the world.

The three texts can be purchased individually or as a single combined text

Text Retail Price $75.00

 Precision Press Brake 2nd edition

This book should have had a different title as it comes printed and as an interactive CD. Read from the book or review it at your computer.

Designed to be viewed in a web browser Precision Press Brake, 2nd Edition (c) 2007 is also available in a printed version and on CD as a PDF file. Same text but without the interactivity or software.

The most complete work to date on the precision sheet metal trade! The Interactive version of Precision Press Brake, 2nd Edition includes the equivalent of a 300- plus page textbook plus two software programs: ASMA 5.0 and a simple CAD-CAM system. Cross-referenced, indexed, and featuring hypertext links, the text covers history, bend functions, flat pattern, hand tools, press brakes, press brake tooling, leaf brakes and rollers, safety, & more.

The interactive version can be used in a very non-liner fashion. Reading about Bend Deductions... not sure what a "Bend Deduction" is... click on the link. Need to call up the software... Click on the link.

Having both allows you to have an interactive version on your computer and and a print version in your tool box. Together with the software Precision Press Brake, 2nd Edition Will bring magic to your Press Brake operations!

Retail Price $65.00




Press Brake Technology

A guide to precision sheet metal bending
(c) 1997,
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
The first and only complete, hardbound text on the subject of precision sheet metal bending. This hard bound text book covers every thing from the history of sheet metal forming through all of the technical information you would ever want to know, and then some. 

The text, Press Brake Technology,
A guide to precision sheet metal bending (c) 1997 carries
with it all of the creditability of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
, which was founded in 1932 and has earned an international reputation for leadership in manufacturing technology.
  Available from The Society of Manufacturing Engineers
   (SME)

Introduction to Precision Press Brake
Copyright 1990

Is the first textbook written by industry expert Steve Benson takes the reader from basic math to selecting press brake tooling.

Complete with work problems, questions and answers. An excellent textbook for the beginning sheet metal student.
Retail Price $58.00



Lasers, Punches, Press Brakes & Shears

Designed to be viewed in a web browser Lasers, Punches, Press Brakes and Shears (c) 2002 is also available in a printed version and on CD as a PDF file. Same text but without the interactivity or software.

The most complete work to date on the precision sheet metal trade! The Interactive version of Lasers, Punches Press Brakes and Shears includes the equivalent of a 400- plus page textbook plus two software programs: ASMA 5.0 and a simple CAD-CAM system. Cross-referenced, indexed, and featuring hypertext links, the text covers history, bend functions, flat pattern, hand tools, coding, turret punches, lasers, press brakes, press brake tooling, leaf brakes and rollers, safety, & more.

The interactive version can be used in a very non-liner fashion. Reading about Bend Deductions... not sure what a "Bend Deduction" is... click on the link. Need to call up the software... Click on the link.

Having both allows you to have an interactive version on your computer and and a print version in your tool box. Together with the software Lasers, Punches, Press Brakes and Shears is an extremely POWERFUL TOOL!

Retail Price $65.00

From Darkness to Light -
Press Brakes - lean manufacturing last great challenge


Ninety pages of  practical lean manufacturing techniques guaranteed to improve your press brake through-put using basic Design for Manufacturing techniques.

Retail Price $29.95

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