Method and computer system for characterizing a sheet metal part

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PATENT NO RE47557
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15468722

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A method for the characterization of a sheet metal forming product uses the correlation of material flow data to a priori calculated or measured data. It determines whether the product falls within the acceptable production limits in terms of quality, areas of potential defects and an approximation of the process parameters prevailing during its production. The characterization is performed in real-time during production, tool deployment or try-out. The method includes the steps of:

    providing physical dimensions of an actual sheet metal part; a feature extractor computing, from these physical dimensions, a measured material flow metric representative of the geometry of the part after the forming operation; and a matching unit determining, from reference data and the measured material flow metric, a matching forming operation data set whose associated simulated material flow metric most closely matches the measured material flow metric.

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AUTOFORM ENGINEERING GMBH8808 PFÄFFIKON SZ

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Servis, Dimitris Zürich, CH 2 5
Zwickl, Titus Wädenswil, CH 3 19

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