Process Engineering with New Materials: Hot Stamping Challenges Part 1
Series index. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 In the last decade, new generation grades have been introduced to...
Steel trends in North American Automotive Applications
A (Subjective) Recap from GDIS 2021
The one-day GDIS (Great Designs in Steel Seminar) is a longstanding mid-spring annual hosted by the steel industry in...
Use Guidelines and Standards to Rapidly Develop Your Formability Employees and...
What if there was a way to effectively share your company's know-how with all employees? Before joining AutoForm, I managed a group of formability engineers...
Without this Tube Forming Solution, We Would have Spent a Small...
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Why Mill What You Know Will Be Adjusted Later?
Creation of tool relief surfaces for manufacturing For a limited time, you can access the on-demand video of this event! The industry continues to push towards...
Tribology and Contact Pressure Parameters: The AutoForm Pareto Principle Part Six
The Final Touches to Secure the Highest Level of Simulation Accuracy This is part six and the final installment ofour series on using the AutoForm...
Focusing on Robustness: The AutoForm Pareto Principle Part Five
Robustness as an Indispensable Element of Securing Simulation Accuracy This is part five of our series on using the AutoForm Pareto Principle to improve simulation...
Digital Twins in the Automotive BiW Process Chain
What Automotive Managers Need to Know Now
For a limited time, you can access the on-demand video of this event! The fourth industrial revolution – Industry...
Groundbreaking Advanced Friction Modelling for Hot Stamping Simulations
The Quality of Hot Forming Simulations Is Surging Until recently, frictional behavior during hot stamping had only been studied in scientific literature. This is because...
How to Bridge Stamping Engineering, Tool Tryout and Production
Bring in-quality tools to the production plant in time – by matching reality to simulation! For a limited time, you can access the on-demand video...
Little Things Add Up! Nailing Your Improvement Targets in Part Design
Get What You Need Quickly with Simple and Easy-To-Use Geometry Creation Tools
As die process design engineers review everything we need to accomplish, it’s no...
The Important Parameters: The AutoForm Pareto Principle Part Four
The Next Phase in Growing Your Accuracy Footprint This is part four of our series on using the AutoForm Pareto principle to improve simulation accuracy....
Accelerating Part and Process Maturation
Boost Your Competitiveness by Using Smart Frontloading Technology
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The Crucial Parameters: The AutoForm Pareto Principle Part Three
The Next Phase in Growing Your Accuracy Footprint This is part three of our series on using the AutoForm Pareto Principle to improve simulation accuracy....
The Big HOW of Setting Up a Process Simulation by Focusing...
First Things First in Growing Your Accuracy Footprint In part two of our series on using the AutoForm Pareto principle to improve simulation accuracy, we...
Minimizing Production Reject Rates
Robust Production Processes for Hydroforming For a limited time, you can access the on-demand video of this event! Experiencing unacceptable reject rates in production despite “ok”...
Realizing the Compensation Strategy in CAD
How to Create Compensated Surfaces Efficiently from Simulation Results For a limited time, you can access the on-demand video of this event! You have spent...
Artificial Intelligence in Sheet Metal Forming: An Interview with Prof. Jeong...
Science Talk Espisode 2: On Finding the Balance between Physical Modeling and AI Based Models In this article, we put four questions to Prof. Jeong...
A New Way Forward: Introducing the AutoForm Pareto Principle in Forming...
Charting the Course to Achieving Highly Accurate Pocess Simulations AutoForm’s application of the Pareto principle serves to prepare our industry for the next level of...
How to Ensure Quality Along the Whole Stamping Process Chain
Design a Robust Manufacturing Process For a limited time, you can access the on-demand video of this event! To generate an efficient production process which is...
Skid Lines Don’t Have To Be a Surprise
Make sure to include skid lines as part of your analysis method
A product that looks good sells well — and a product that looks...
Hiring a Simulation Consultant: A Post-Covid & Post-Brexit Trend?
The Nick Sephton Start-Up Story British toolmaking expert Nick Sephton shares his perspective on why Tier One suppliers are increasingly hiring external simulation services and...
Which Material Properties to Use When No Beskar Steel Card Is...
When is an equivalent not an equivalent? Understanding the challenges behind equivalent material grades
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Understanding Process Robustness Prior to Tool Compensation
Removing the Unpredictability Before it’s Too Late
While some medium strength steels show predictable springback behavior, most higher strength steels, complex phase steels, and even...
AutoForm Assembly Launch – Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Video On...
In an earlier post, I shared that AutoForm had some ideas on how to improve Body-in-White Assembly accuracy, and in March and April of...
Textbook vs. Simulation: Does It Hold Up?
A Look Into the Past
While it’s constantly developing and updating, tube hydroforming technology has been around for quite some time — enabling the creation...
When the “Real” Drawbeads Conflict With Engineering Intent
Systematic Process Improvement for Drawbeads vs. Manual Trial and Error
Tool tryout is an iterative process that aims to deliver a die capable of producing...
Effect of Forming on Zinc Coating Quality of Flat Steels
Inside the R&D Department of a Steel Supplier with Emin Tamer Located in Bursa, West Turkey, Borçelik is a major steel manufacturer with a production...
Busting Myths Using AutoForm: an Anonymous Case Study from India
What Is the Most Intuitive Countermeasure to Resolve a Split? If your answer is “reducing drawbead strength,” then you will be surprised by the article’s...
Springback Reduction with Systematic Process Improvement for an Inner Hood
Early Work Pays Off: Establishing Countermeasures with Early Robustness Studies In this blog post, readers learn how the range of springback can be reduced in...
