Sheet metal is used to produce boilers, desert coolers, furniture, furnaces, air-conditioning units, ventilating systems, advertising signs, automobiles bodies and many other products usually on the quantity basis providing considerable business opportunities for the local sheet metal workers and shops. The sheet metal is drafted, cut, formed and joined; the various parts are assembled and installed. By the means of sheet metal break and spatial forming attachment any desired shape and size can be developed. The forming machine is very essential in the workshop in which one is able to roll a sheet into cylindrical shape that is essential to make heating and ventilating installations. The edges of the cylinder or different objects are generally grooved by hand or run through the grooving machine. The edges have previously been bend on the bar folder or sheet metal break to form locks, when pressure is applied to the locks they are been tightly fitted and later been crimped.

The forming machine may be used for forming conical and tapering wok such as can tops, funnels, lamp shades and various other articles. Sheet metal worker uses micrometer to measure various gauges and thickness of the sheet metal to be required for various artifacts. Riveting and welding is required to assemble various parts together to form a shape and the workers have specialized hand tools like hammer of different kinds to achieve any desired shape and orientation. As long as so many products which are so useful in our modern lives and are made out of sheet metal, there will be jobs for the skilled workers in this field.