Parameters for Hot Forming and Quenching: Engineering and Design
Have you ever defined a hot forming process virtually?
How do you determine which design and process parameters are required for the production...
Why is springback worse for HSS and AHSS?
It seems that you cannot have a discussion about High Strength Steel (HSS) and Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) without springback shortly becoming the...
Material Matters: as-shipped vs. as-engineered material
Are all coils created equal? Various coils have potentially different mechanical properties. Source image attribution: www.terexmphs.com
In tryout and production the engineering “boundary conditions” used...
Tryout and Simulation results don’t match? Now what?
Significant wrinkling in draw operation? What leads to this behavior?
As a provider of software for metal forming simulation, on occasion customers will contact our...
Optimal Stamping Process Plans
To face the metal forming challenges of the future we need to employ methods to engineer processes wherein we evaluate decisions across a broader...
Success Story: Fontana Pietro
In the January issue of MetalForming Magazine, Italian tool designer and developer Fontana Pietro shares how they have successfully standardized their process for building...
Which way to optimum?
Whenever planning sheet metal stamping products and processes, the goal is always to design the “optimum” process. However, the search for the optimum is...
We think in Sheet Metal
For the launch of our AutoFormplus R4 version in 2012 we adopted the motto of “Wir denken in Blech” or “We think in Sheet...
