Flat honing is a metalworking grinding process used to provide high quality flat surfaces.
Hardfacing is a metalworking process where harder or tougher material is applied to a base metal.
Hemming and seaming are two similar metalworking processes in which a sheet metal edge is rolled over onto itself.
The mandrel does not incur excessive forces, as found in other metalworking processes, so it can be made from wood, plastic, or ice.
Forging is one of the oldest known metalworking processes.
Heading is a metalworking process which incorporates the forging, extruding and upsetting process.
Rotary piercing is a hot working metalworking process for forming thick-walled seamless tubing.
Drawing is a metalworking process which uses tensile forces to stretch metal.
Decambering is the metalworking process of removing camber, or horizontal bend, from strip shaped materials.
Advances in computer power and advanced sensors will allow for much closer control of the overall metalworking processes.