All places where metal steel plates and steel belts are used, except welding or sheet metal forming, the rest are basically the work of punching machines. Large industries include automobiles (most of the body), motors (silicon steel sheets), military industry (shell casings), batteries (shells) and so on; Small items include washers, cups and plates. Some wire and plate forming processes also use punching machines.

Stamping equipment mainly includes crank press, friction press, double-action drawing press, fine blanking press, high-speed press, CNC punching die turret press and so on.

The main partners of punch press are various (continuous) blanking dies, punching dies, drawing dies, bending dies and trimming dies.