WORST Case Material: Not the BEST OPTION
Withstanding Variations in Sheet Metal Properties
to Achieve Robust Stamping Processes
When you design a component (of an automobile, household machines, or anything) you want to...
Dassault Systèmes & AutoForm: Successful Tool Design at Volkswagen
Revisiting Volkswagen’s Tool Shop Selection of
ProcessDesignerforCATIA as Their Tool of Choice
During the past decades AutoForm created solutions to cover the engineering of car...
Systematic Process Improvement – Say Goodbye to Trial and Error
How Simulation Get's it Right
A Look at Simulation Results for Optimal Split Removal
Cars that carry a certain ‘prestige’ are built to appeal to their...
Tribology Enters Simulation – How TriboForm Transformed a Consulting Solution into...
An Interview with Jan Harmen Wiebenga
with the Inside Story
Following our last post we wanted to go more into the TriboForm story. It was...
Assembly Simulation & Forming Simulation – How Burkhard Ravagni LEFT AutoForm...
The Inside Scoop of HOW Assembly and Forming Simulations Together Create a Better World
for Auto Manufacturers
Some people you never see again. They leave looking...
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Addressing Aluminum Challenges at Aluminum Week China 2017
Sharing Discussions on Simulating Aluminum in China
The use of aluminum parts in cars helps to overcome today’s challenges of automotive industry such as lightweight...
The TriboForm Story that Brought Tribology Forward for Simulation Companies
From University Research Project to International Success
How Two Young Guys Captured the Simulation Market Through Their Expertise in Tribology
It’s a grassroots story that...
Why General Manager Marc Lambriks Likes Tryout and Production Map Standards...
Tryout and Production Map Standards in AutoForm-Sigmaplus
According to Marc Lambriks, General Manager at AutoForm Netherlands, there is no substitute to using the try-out and...
An Interview with Stefan Davis on the Workshops for Process Designer
A First Interview with More Interviews to Follow
As a part of our new blogging approach at AutoForm you'll be seeing a number of interviews...
AutoForm at the CHS2
See Our Systematic Process Improvement Approach on June the 4th-7th, Atlanta U.S.A
In order to improve the set-up of industrial press hardening processes, companies and researchers...
Hot Stamping and Progressive Die Simulation in AutoForm R7
As you may have heard the new AutoFormplus R7 has been released.
So what upgrades does it bring? This blog post is about two major enhancements.
AutoFormplus R7...
How to Successfully Evolve Software Code in a World of Simulation
Maturing isn’t only for good wine. It also creates software that delivers the latest trends. It is our belief at AutoForm that the understanding of...
Stamping and Strawberry Pies Done Right
Robustness - what is it and how does it relate to strawberry pies?
In several previous posts we have talked about robustness and the repeatability...
What is the future of engineering hemming processes?
During the past 20 years, stamping simulation has brought tremendous change to the way stamping processes are defined and validated, stamping tools are designed...
How to go beyond educated guessing…
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”
Systematic process improvement, as described in several previous posts (Adjusting complex process variables: Drawbead shapes, Virtual...
What is passing?
After the recent posts on failure prediction based on FLCs, several inquiries arrived through the blog and social media, regarding interpretation of other outputs for...
Adjusting complex process variables: Drawbead shapes
In Finite Element Analysis, it is common to treat the metal restraint due to draw beads as numerical factors applied along a curve or...
Hemming feasibility
We had the honor to be selected as the computer simulation partner for a recent Auto/Steel Partnership (A/SP) study that considered the feasibility of...
Generic CAD or Dedicated Surfacing tools for Die Face design
Fifteen years ago, AutoForm introduced a novel idea to the sheet metal stamping industry: AutoForm-DieDesigner, a sheet metal simulation integrated-draw die-face development product. With...
Material Matters: Knowing your limit
The Formability of sheet metals
Previous posts Materials Matters, "the known unknowns" and “Material plasticity visualized” covered the general aspects, common terminology, and formulation of...
Springback Compensation in Hydroformed closed section parts
For the continued growth of tube-hydroforming, better methods for creating and validating springback compensation are essential. Upcoming vehicle programs forecast increasing use of Advanced...
Stamping System: Press speed and lubrication challenges
Lately, one of the most frequently asked questions in metal forming simulation has been “Can your software model the effects of a servo press?”...
Tribology, friction, and lubrication: A new dimension to metal forming simulations
In our previous post on the stamping system, several environmental variables within production sheet metal stamping are mentioned. In that post we listed variables...
Material Matters: Sheet metal plasticity visualized (part 2 of 2)
As already discussed in Sheet metal plasticity visualized (part one) there are four main components needed to model the plastic deformation of sheet metals:...
Stamping System: Blank Shape, Size, and Location
The blank is one of the first parameters defined in a stamping simulation; it’s mechanical properties, shape, and location in the tool. However, many...
Lubrication values for simulation
We are pleased that the SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) Stamping and Dies Technical Group and Metal Forming Simulation Technical Group will host a...
Material Matters: Sheet metal plasticity visualized (part 1 of 2)
As already discussed in the post “Constitutive modeling of sheet metal” there are four main components needed to model the plastic deformation of sheet...
Success Story: Godrej Tooling implements robust compensation
Springback of sheet metal stamped parts is a challenge faced by tooling suppliers and their customers; parts produced in stamping dies require significant effort...
Material Matters: modeling of sheet metal- the “known unknowns”
Modeling of sheet metal stamping can raise many questions regarding the validity of engineering decisions based on finite element analysis. Knowing only the grade...
