Present virtual try-outs of stamping and assembly procedures to distinguish concerns before developing the tooling to ease costs and time-to-market, while enhancing product quality. These solutions can be utilized to all types of metal forming, joining, welding and metal-based additive manufacturing.
FORMINGSUITE® PROFESSIONAL
Robust Stamping Simulation for Sheet Metal Components
- Enables users in all departments from costing, to design to the shop floor to calculate part and process possibility as well as spring back instantly and effortlessly for sheet metal stamped components.
- Categorizes formability problems permitting engineering modifications to be made earlier in the product life cycle, saving time and money.
- With easy-to-use formability simulation engineers generate a "virtual prove-out", accurately predicting forming problems such as cracking, wrinkling, thinning and spring-back before executing to physical tools.
Highlights And Benefits
• Effective stamping analysis package for blank development, process design validation, and virtual prove-out using both incremental and coupled hybrid inverse stamping simulation.
• Effortlessly integrated tools provide simulation and validation of the entire process from quoting to tooling design to virtual prove-out with speed and efficiency in a simple and intuitive user interface.
• Scientific physics-based approach reduces formability guess work and results in significant reduction in die try-out.
• Accurately identifies safety zone, FLD, material thinning, gathering conditions, major/minor strain, spring back and provides compensation data.
• Automatically generates a report to summarize product and tool design issues
TRIM LINE DEVELOPMENT
• Combines the power of FTI’s Coupled Hybrid Inverse (CHI) solver and CATIA V5/6 for advancement of complex hems and flanges required for Class A panels at automotive OEM and Tier 1 suppliers.
• Designed to unfold complex geometry features such as automotive hems and flanges rapidly and precisely.
• Correctly accounting for stretch and deformation during flanging and hemming,
• Considers effects of material properties
• Accurately develops hole and other pierce locations in solution
• Unlike section based approaches, accurately captures minor details in geometry profiles
• Proven technology based on FTI’s world-class CHI solver that correctly considers bend allowance and permits the use of top, bottom, or middle surface geometry without the need to offset
• Geometry mapping capability enables tracking of geometry features between final product geometry and unfolded flange geometry.
SCULPTURED DIE FACE
Fast die face design for deep drawn panels
- enables cost engineers to quickly create and morph die face designs to accurately capture the true metal forming process.
- require extra material (die face) to allow the required metal flow.
- essential for determining accurate material costs and scientifically estimating tooling costs.
- Highlights and advantages
- Create first form draw models for accurate material cost estimates for drawn panels
- Performs stamping feature recognition to remove secondary operations from first form draw
- Determine impact of developing flanges on punch face, die face, or binder
- Optimize press axis direction for minimizing undercut or draw depth while analysing trim conditions, draft angle, and undercuts
- Construct complex, developable curved binder geometry using a variety of powerful, industry driven approaches
- Accurately develop trim lines for flange, hem and extrusion geometry onto die surfaces
- Export surface data for use in COSTOPTIMIZER® for costing and estimating
Highlights And Advantages
• Recognizes product design changes that enhance material utilization and reduce costs
• Classifies product design changes that improve quality, material utilization, and reduce weight and costs for optimal material usage
• Enhances quote accuracy to better position your company
• Accurately characterizes splits and wrinkles using Forming Limit Diagram (FLD), Safety Zone in supplementing to Thickness Strain, Major/ Minor Strain, etc.
• Computes Spring-back to predict concerns for tooling and provide information for Tolerance Negotiation
• Reports encapsulate product design issues and material utilization providing first level communication between product and tooling suppliers (internal/external)
• Stimulates confidence and trust with your customers/suppliers