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SIMUFACT Engineering has upgraded
version 12 of the simulation software
Simufact.forming with improvements for
cold metal forming companies.
As one of the features the new AFS
technology bundles functions for the
simulation of cold metal forming
processes, which provides usability
benefits to the customer.
Simufact.forming covers a wide range of
different forming processes in the
metalworking and metal processing
industry. The software is primarily aimed
at machinery and plant engineering
companies, the automotive and the
aerospace industry, as well as
sector-related suppliers.
Highly relevant for the cold forming, also
from an economic perspective, is –
besides the forming of the component –
the tool analysis, particularly tool life.
The characteristic yield stresses and the
material hardening require great pressing
forces and reveal the forming tools to be
used.
The tool resistance, highly relevant for
cold forming processes, can often only
be attained by a supporting
reinforcement. Therefore the simulation
has to consider all relevant framework
conditions including the tool
reinforcement and the material flow.
Essential for a high-precision simulation
of cold forming processes is the realistic
presentation of the forces involved in the
forming process while taking into
account the effects of spring back and
the elastic-plastic material laws –
features that are all provided by
Simufact.forming.
With the latest product version,
Simufact.forming 12, Simufact
introduced the newly developed AFS
technology (Application Function Sets).
After starting the software, the user can
now decide for a specific field of
application.
Specific process-depending setups,
such as the selection of the appropriate
solver, are displayed, while specific
functions for other application fields are
hidden.
As a result, the functions for cold metal
forming are bundled and the software
limits itself to the process-relevant
functions. This greatly improves the
usability of the software: streamlined and
simplified, the use becomes more
intuitive, faster and more effective.
Besides the cold metal forming,
Simufact.forming can be applied for hot
forming, sheet metal forming, rolling, ring
rolling, open die forging, heat treatment
and mechanical joining processes.
Simulation software supports finding
answers to urgent matters. Often a
simulation-based feasibility analysis
shows whether or not the component,
requested, can be realised.
For those striving to avoid mistakes in
series production, process simulation
has become an indispensable tool to
simulate several manufacturing
approaches simultaneously, to
differentiate between good and bad
approaches and to decide on the most
suitable one. Such an experimental
try-out approach would be significantly
more expensive and uneconomical in
real-life testing. Even without an
experimental approach, a reduction of
the number of trial runs remains
worthwhile.
By virtual testing, the results of
multistage manufacturing processes can
be predicted. Simufact.forming
combines the individual stages and
calculates multistage processes in a
single run; the required transfer and
increase of results (2D-3D) as well as the
positioning of the die are automatic
functions.
Simufact Engineering – Germany
Website:
Improved version of simulation
software
❍ Software improvements for cold metal
forming companies