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Modern manufacturing technology paternity is always finding some or the other alternative methods of manufacturing processes in hydroforming. Stream Hydroforming is one of the super fine metals forming process. From last four to five decades many applications have come in existence. Recently hydroforming has been applied in automotive components however it has many challenges such as metallurgical aspects of materials, tribological aspects, die design, non-availability of high pressure components for equipment manufacturing and lack of literature and references. In this study, Finite elementanalysis (FEA) for simple shape was performed and metal forming behavior during hydroforming was observed. In this study the influence of the axial movement and pressure applied on the confined fluid (water) in the tube is recorded and it is correlated as under-"The axial movement of tube is directly related with change in internal volume of the tube". Here we found that the potential of this hydroforming method in the sheet metal manufacturing industries is very large.