Representing, understanding and optimizing innovative processes
Numerical simulation is an indispensable tool of analysis in sheet metal processing. It opens up the possibility to evaluate at an early stage of tool development how innovative technologies can be implemented. Furthermore it enables the determination of optimum parameters for processes and geometries and to deepen the overall process knowledge.
In order to develop new products or to enhance existing processes of sheet metal forming, it is essential to predict and optimize quality characteristics such as thinning or shape accuracy of the components.
Temperature and other influencing factors play a significant role in numerous innovative applications, which may lead to considerably more extensive and sophisticated numerical models. However, such enhanced numerical models also grant the developer access to the complex interactions of physical and technological factors involved in the examined forming process.