12th Tooling Conference & Exhibition - Tooling 2022

Today's tool and die making industry is characterized by increased individualization and complex manufacturing processes. Therefore, toolmaking companies are forced to always push the limits of what is technically feasible. The usual heterogeneous use of different manufacturing technologies generates high manual planning efforts and requires a cross-technology process understanding. A large...

Due to the increase of the complexity of the products and the shorter time-to-market, it is also necessary to develop the required tooling to attend to the planned deadlines. This scenario requires advancing the state-of-the-art frontier to improve the tooling competitiveness and productivity.
To achieve such improvement and increase in competitiveness, it is necessary to insert the tooling...

The present work focuses on the knowledge-based expert system to develop an automated die and punch tools design for the sheet metal forming process (deep drawing operation). The major limitation of the conventional forming process is the manufacturing of dies. As the attributes of the final component varies, the configuration of the tooling (punch and die) require to be modified. Hence, the...