Stellantis Brazil Achieves Significant Savings in Process Investments and Part Cost...
One of the major challenges in implementing simulation resources in engineering processes in companies is how to justify this kind of investment and how...
Transforming Barriers into Bridges: Opening Departmental Silos Through Digital Transformation
The automotive industry has always been at the edge of technological development, challenging the status quo as for instance in Henry Ford's feat that...
KIA: The Total Benefits of Successful Digital Transformation, Part III: Failures...
This is part three of a three part hot forming series exploring how KIA has researched the current technologies which enable digitalization in hot...
EPALFER Portugal Achieves Agile Planning & Bidding
How EPALFER from Portugal shortened their planning and bidding phase In 2020, EPALFER, a toolmaker based in Portugal dedicated to developing and constructing stamping tools...
KIA Success in the Digital Transformation in Hot Stamped Parts, Part...
A Focus on the Product and Business Processes of Manufacturing Ecosystems This is part two of a three part hot forming series exploring how KIA...
Talkin’ Bout My Generation
This article first appeared in the February 2023 Automotive Special Issue of MetalForming magazine (www.metalformingmagazine.com), and is reprinted here with permission granted by the...
THE QUEST FOR FIRST HIT PASS OUTCOMES
Excerpted from a pre-release publication tentatively titled “Brickwalls and Barricades: The Quest for Flawless Execution of First Hit Pass Outcomes”, this article introduces actual...
KIA: Successful Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Process Engineering, Part I
Driving fundamental changes through the digitalization process This is part one of a three part series exploring how KIA has researched the current technologies which...
Aerospace Company DOMAERO Takes Controlled Risks Thanks to Numeric Simulation
DOMAERO, a French aerospace supplier est. in 1990, is specialized in sheet metal forming for the civil, defense, and space markets. Its customers, main...
In Pictures! How Hydroforming Can Replace Sheet Metal Stamping in the...
Introduction
In the quest for improved competitiveness, industries are constantly seeking effective methods to reduce costs and time in their manufacturing processes and operations. To...
Forging the “Ring of Power” – How Realistic Is the Material...
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Continuing our...
Evolving Hemming Process Development
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Experience Meets the Right Tools for Success: Bill Pittman Explains His...
Introduction
Bill Pittman is the Stamping Feasibility Manager for the North American center of an international OEM. The job title can have varying interpretations in...
A Smart and Systematic Approach for Tube Forming Engineering
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Is Accuracy Too Costly?
Focusing solely on accuracy can lead to losing sight of reality and driving up costs. Throughout our daily lives, we often hear about the precision...
Smart Engineering Enabling Smart Production at Volvo Cars
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AutoForm’s HotForming & Accuracy Expert: Intaek Lee
Introducing Intaek Lee "The digital process twin is true insurance. My vision is to help OEMs establish their smart engineering processes using a physics-based model...
AutoForm’s Engineering, Manufacturing & Quality Expert: Gianfranco Ruggiero
Introducing Gianfranco Ruggiero "Build what was simulated. My vision is to successfully inspire OEMs and tool makers to make the leap to embrace this era...
AutoForm’s Process Design & Surface Quality Expert: Jonathan Varner
Introducing Jonathan Varner "Engineer right, cut once! Our experience and standards are a solid foundation, but they do not initiate innovation. We find the "sweet...
AutoForm’s Tube & Value Engineering Expert: Mayank Gupta
Introducing Mayank Gupta "Be Smart, Be Digital! An increased uptake of new digital engineering tools is now under way and is ever expanding into new...
LAUAK Aerospace Supplier Quantifies Operations Reductions from Blank Size Reduction to...
In this article, Jeremy Pion, the Head of Technical Services at LAUAK, describes the importance of simulation for both product and process design, and...
RA-Metal DP600 Internal Reinforcement Case Study Brazil Tooling
RA-METAL FERRAMENTARIA is already conquering space in the Brazilian stamping scene by attracting and retaining new customers. The company is situated in Limeira, about...
Simulation Driven Pre-Hem Flange Creation and Compensation
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Struggling with an Equivalent Material Card? Material Scattering Simulation Can Help
It is well known that tool makers really struggle in creating a material card that describes material behavior under deformation made by the stamping...
Evolving BiW Assembly Process Development
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MABE: White Goods Innovation with Process Simulation: Surface Quality in a...
Introduction Initially, Mabe focused on producing kitchen cabinets and integrated furniture. Thanks to its rapid growth, the company became Mexico's largest appliance exporter by 1960....
Stamping Process Engineering – Get the Tool Right at the...
How tool makers benefit from a comprehensive application of digital dies compensation For those who missed this online event, you can now see the webinar...
Fixing Multiple Problems Simultaneously: Powerful Geometry Modifications in Simulation
Introduction Most of the time, we think of things in reference to the extremes so we can better understand them. It is like reflecting on...
Grupo Segura: Simulating the Coldforming of 3rd Generation AHSS Steels
In the automotive industry, there is a constant tendency to find increasingly lighter and safer vehicles. For this reason, the materials used in the...
The Next Evolution of CATIA-based Process Design
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