The invention relates to a seaming and hemming machine for machining a thin metal plate and the seaming and hemming process. The machine comprises a base, a grooving device and a hemming device, wherein a first damping mechanism and a second damping mechanism are evenly installed on the base, the first damping mechanism is located in front of the second damping mechanism, the grooving device is installed on the first damping mechanism, and the hemming device is installed above the second damping mechanism. The machine is advantaged in that when a lower hinge (hinge) machining machine is used for slotting and hemming a to-be-machined workpiece, the to-be-machined workpiece can be machined, in the prior art, machining of each station is usually achieved through single-machine operation, forexample, metal plates with the same size are cut out and placed on the side of a station of a grooving machine, the metal plates are grooved firstly, and then edge hemming machining of the next station is conducted on the grooved metal plates, so hinge pieces need to be machined through an assembly line device one procedure by one procedure, hinge piece machining production efficiency is low, theautomation degree is not high, and labor intensity is high.