Design and Fabrication of Motorised Sheet Metal Rolling Machine

In Sheet Metal working industry, a wide range of power and hand operated machines are being used. As the sheet metal industry is a large and growing industry different types of machines are used for different operations. Rolling is a fabricating process in which the metal, plastic, paper, glass, etc. is passed through a pair (or pairs) of rolls. There are two types of rolling process, flat and profile rolling. In flat rolling the final shape of the product is either classed as sheet (typically thickness less than 3 mm, also called "strip") or plate (typically thickness more than 3 mm). In profile rolling the final product may be a round rod or other shaped bar, such as a structural section (beam, channel, joist etc.). In this project the sheet metal rolling is very simple in operation by using roller which is coupled with motor. This machine produces cylindrical objects of different diameters. In normal practice of the roller bending, heavily depends upon the experience and skill of the operator. Trial and error are a common practice in the industry. This project reduces the manpower so that the human errors are reduced. This machine consists of three rollers of 80mm dia and 1.37m length which are meshed with a gear at the end and the gear box is coupled with a 2hp motor. This machine is simple in construction and working.

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Wofuru-Nyenke, O. K. (2025). Design and Fabrication of Motorised Sheet Metal Rolling Machine. International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Simulations and Optimisation (IJAMSO), 1(1), 56-69.

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