In many industrial applications the manufacturing equipment is custom designed to suit the nature of the parts being connected. The clinching tools remain as illustrated in Fig. 1 but the delivery system is adapted to suit specific requirements and may be either manual, semi or fully automated. In industrialised production it is likely that the manufacturing equipment would be developed to suit the specific needs of the connections and trusses. Details of the sections used to manufacture the test trusses are shown in Fig. 2.