This article was updated March 7, 2023. It was originally published Dec. 9, 2004. Engineers have an impressive array of ways to join two pieces of metal including adhesives, nuts and bolts, and a long ...

Permanent joining creates a lasting bond between materials, often stronger than the materials themselves, using methods like soldering, brazing, and welding. Soft soldering joins metal parts using a ...

Clinching is a sheet metal joining process that has been used for decades. It offers a fast, clean way to join metal parts without welding or screws. In this article, we share clinching 101 knowledge ...

FlexHyJoin demonstrates a mass production process for producing a thermoplastic composite roof stiffener with welded metal brackets for assembly into a metal body-in-white, like that of the project’s ...

Spot welding looks simple and easy until your products fall apart while being delivered to the job site. When that happened to one contractor several years ago, spot welding suddenly took on a whole ...

Welding is typically used to join two parts together, whether those parts be metal or plastic. There are various styles of welding, but we won’t go into those here. Casting is the act of pouring a ...