Forming (metalworking)

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In metalworking, forming is the fashioning of metal parts and objects through mechanical deformation; the workpiece is reshaped without adding or removing material, and its mass remains unchanged.^[1] Forming operates on the materials science principle of plastic deformation, where the physical shape of a material is permanently deformed.