BLECH Nordic 2011 - Exhibition for Sheet Metal Working

Instead of using press hardening to produce automotive components of high strength steel, the alternative of using 3D rollforming directly of martensitic high strength material will be presented. The latest result for the third generation of the technology will also be presented.

Lars Ingvarsson, PhD and ass. Prof at The Royal Institute of Technology has parallel been occupied as CTO for the Swedish company ORTIC 3D where the 3D rollforming technology has been developed.

The talk will give an outline of possibilities resulting from the combination of advanced materials with well suited forming methods.

Dr Boel Wadman and Ms Elisabeth Sagström have for over 15 years been involved in research projects concerning ultra-high strength steels, roll-forming, hydroforming, and stamping.

In 1977 Salvagnini invented a new technology for bending sheet metal component the P4, aka the Panel Bender. Main P4 functional features. The technological evolution : productivity -> automation -> flexibility -> applications -> energy saving. Examples of applications (including the ones made real time in our stand). Bench mark with traditional technology

For more than 25 years Giovanni Piccolo (47) has been working for Salvagnini Italia SpA, the first 12 years as a software engineer, since then and up to now, as the project manager for Scandinavia and UK, and some eastern markets.

Energy beside water and other resources will affect in future the life of mankind dramatically. Not only the increasing costs but the availability will be the main issue. Voith Turbo H + L Hydraulic developed a servo pump drive system for hydraulic presses with the main goal to increase the efficiency of the hydraulic presses drastically. Beside this benefit the noise, flexibility and most of the other machine parameters can be improved significantly.

Bernd Schreiber, 47, has more than 20 years experience in the hydraulic industry, 10 years in mobile applications and 10 years in industrial applications. He is working for Voith Turbo H + L Hydraulic for more than 10 years and is Voith’s Head of Sales.

An overview of TR Fastenings and the core product range.

Jan-Eric Storsve has worked for over 25 years in the fastener industry. He has worked for TR Fastenings for 15 years, in that time he has helped develop TR in Norway, Sweden and Eastern Europe. Now Jan-Erik is the General Manager of TR Fastenings Norge AS and is responsible for TR Scandinavian Branded products sales.

Radan is a fully integrated CAD / CAM system for sheet metal working with features such as 2D/3D construction, distribution, punching, laser and press brake programming. Radan is the optimal processing program and can quickly be adapted for most punch, laser and combination machines on the market.

Patrik Wallin has been working with technical sales of standard tools and CAD / CAM systems for over fifteen years and has extensive experience in these areas. During these years, Patrick and his colleagues has installed Radan CAD / CAM systems and trained customers in 2D/3D design, as well as punching and laser programming.

To realize lighter and safer designs more and more state-of-the-art materials, such as ultrahigh strength steels and aluminum, are used throughout the sheet metal forming industry. Parts stamped from these materials are often more sensitive to springback than those made from conventional steels. Springback modifies the final shape of the part and the correction of springback increases manufacturing costs. A large amount of springback after forming often leads to time and cost-intensive correction loops during tool tryout. Predicting the final geometry of a part after springback and designing appropriate tooling to compensate for springback, continues to pose practical problems in the manufacturing industry. During the BLECH Nordic seminars, Dave Ling from AutoForm Engineering BV will go into AutoForm solutions to come to an efficient and effective way of springback compensation.

After Studying Mechanical Engineering at University, Dave Ling studied an MSc in Computer Integrated Manufacturing at Cranfield University. His entire career has been in the domain of finite element simulation of Sheet Metal forming. His career started at Rover Group in 1994, in the Body & Pressings division, in Die engineering. He was instrumental in the introduction of finite element Forming simulation as a core process, and eventually progressed to team leader of the Forming simulation group. In 1998 Dave began as a support engineer for sheet metal forming simulation at ESI group, and eventually moved into a Product Management position, taking care of the Sheet Metal forming software branch. Since 2009 Dave worked for AutoForm Engineering BV as a Technical Consultant, helping customers to get maximum benefit from the range of Metal Forming Software solutions offered by AutoForm, and assisting customers in optimizing their engineering processes to improve quality, reduce costs, and reduce lead times.

The sheet metal process chain is accompanied by the central question: How are high-quality work pieces produced fast and economically? The answer on that is the sheet metal software developed by SPI GmbH (Hamburg, Northern Germany), which is available for the CAD systems Autodesk and SolidWorks.

SPI SheetMetal Solutions provide a variety of efficient design tools for sheet metal design. Especially the design and unfolding of sharp cornered models - without the need to apply reliefs - is available. It is possible to unfold sharp cornered sheet metal parts or even inaccurate imported models. SPI's sheet metal design software allows direct exporting of the unfolding geometry into the TruTops GEO and WICAM XML file formats.

The new SPI TruTops Interface allows to use the bending process information from TruTops Bend. Designers can read it into the SPI material management database directly and use it during the design process with the SPI SheetMetal Solutions. The tool‘s data of several punch and forming tools from TruTops Punch can be used in the same way. The generated unfolding is fully compatible with the calculation methods of the NC program TruTops Bend and delivers all necessary process data. The user can directly transfer the unfolding from SPI to TruTops programs (Punch, Laser, Bend) without the need for revision.

SPI applications are certified and fully integrated with latest releases of the basic CAD System. SPI SheetMetal Solutions are available in several languages and are sold through a network of authorized SPI-partners in more than 35 countries in Europe, America and Asia/Pacific.

Dipl. Inf. Mario Rogge, 42, studied informatics and works for SPI since 11 years. Mechanical engineer Mathias Schöwe, 41, brings along 15 years of experience in the field of CAD /CAM for sheet metal.

Servo driven press technology entered the modern press shop within a very short time. More than 140 machines on order or already delivered give proof for this statement. The advantages are manifold. Not only is the increase of the output rate of this type of press attractive, it also is the ease of use and the possibility to fine tune the production cycle for the material and the existing tooling accordingly. The professional stamper will get a new possibility on hand to develop press tooling which even allows for secondary operations inside of the press while the slide has stopped, thus eliminating complex and time consuming handling operations.

Adrian Achermann started his career at Beutler Nova AG as an industrial mechanic trainee, graduating in 1992. He then went on to study engineering and business science in Switzerland and returned to Beutler Nova AG in 1998; initially working as an assembly manager and from 2002 on as plant manager. In 2010, the 36-year-old was appointed CEO of Beutler Nova AG and is now also in charge of Sales and Marketing.

WiCAM is the leading provider in the technology of CAD / CAM software for the sheet metal industry. Since its foundation in 1986, WICAM had the vision to drive new technologies and implementing them with new ideas and concepts with industrial innovation.

The goal is to completely automate solutions that are based on the needs and requirements of the industry. In this case, the communication with our customers is the top priority. And based on the standard software PN4000, WiCAM also provide tailored solutions to fit the exact customer needs and on going technical support. WiCAM has seen continued expansion and is now a global Leader.

Our software PN4000 is now available in 10 languages and is used in more than 30 countries worldwide.

In 2008 Salvagnini presented his fiber laser at Euroblech,: main results after three years, main functional features of fiber laser. Cutting speeds in various materials, energy consumption, maintenance and other various running costs. Examples of applications (products and layouts), feedback from the customers.

For more than 25 year Giovanni Piccolo (47) has been working for Salvagnini Italia SpA, the first 12 years as a software engineer, since and up to now, as the project manager for Scandinavia and UK, and some eastern markets.

Improvements in computer hardware and numerical methods offer tremendous progress in calculating laser-gas-material interactions and predicting process results. Fraunhofer ILT used the simulation software CALCut to explain the essential positive and negative impacts of multiple reflections in cutting with 1 micron wavelength lasers.

Cognition is the key requirement of future systems. This is managed by imaging systems, intelligent meta-model assisted data processing and closed-loop parameter actuation in self-optimizing laser cutting machines. A big challenge for a “mature” laser application in the new decade – to be accomplished only by fast and intelligent simulation algorithms.

Dirk Petring is with Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen, Germany, where he became head of the Dept. Cutting in 1989. He received his PhD at the Technical University RWTH Aachen in 1994. In 1998 Dr. Petring also took over responsibility for the welding activities at Fraunhofer ILT as head of the Cutting & Joining department. Dr. Petring co-founded the Laserfact GmbH in 2006 and is currently co-owner of Laserfact and Group Manager for Macro Joining and Cutting at Fraunhofer ILT.

Franco Cozzani will be talking about the history of the RFCS programme, as an innovative model for research funding; its status and the recent programme developments, in particular for European Steel research activities, as well as the main future developments.

Franco Cozzani is the Deputy Head of Unit of the European Commission Department responsible for the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS).

Franco joined the European Commission in 1989 and held a number of positions in the Community Nuclear Fusion Programme, was EU OECD R&D coordinator, EU Observer in the CERN Council and EUREKA National Project Coordinator for the EU. Before joining the RFCS, he managed the Strategy and Evaluation Department in the EUREKA Secretariat in Brussels for four years, on secondment from the European Commission.

A theoretical physicist by education, Franco worked as university researcher in the U.S. and as programme manager in the Italian space industry. He published in the areas of astrophysics, controlled nuclear fusion, particle accelerators, S&T policy, the nature and legacy of nuclear weapons, and is the author of "Mal d'America", a novel (in Italian) set in the United States of the 1980's.

En modern stansmaskin är nu för tiden allmänt sofistikerad, snabb, process säker och ofta automatiserad, med några få undantag - restgitter är en fara för process säkerheten eftersom detaljer kan fastna i det. Dessutom är utlastning av restgitter en egen bearbetningsoperation, som en maskinoperatör måste hantera och transportera till någon skrotbehållare. Detta kostar tid – och mycket material.

TRUMPF visar nu ett alternativ: Restgitterfri bearbetning.

Vår senaste och absolut unika innovation kommer att effektivisera Er produktion och spara i snitt 10 % material och hjälper Er att producera mer på kortare tid. Och kvar blir inget annat än vinst.

Stefan Wallén har arbetat över 25 år i plåtbranschen och varit ansvarig för försäljning och utbildning av programmeringssystem till hela TRUMPF´s produktprogram av verktygsmaskiner från slutet av 80-talet. Sedan mitten av 90-talet arbetar han med försäljning av verktygsmaskiner och är för närvarande försäljningschef på TRUMPF maskin ab med ansvar för den svenska och norska marknaden.

Ny teknik inom bultsvetsning har skapat fantastiska möjligheter inom såväl robot applikationer som helautomatiska produktionsceller.

Lars Boström är produktansvarig för bultsvetsning och har mer än 20 års erfarenhet

Since the introduction of Schuler’s ServoDirect Technology (SDT), impressive results have been achieved in the production of a wide variety of components. The freely programmable sequence of movements within the forming and transport processes provides not only the ability to optimize these existing processes to achieve a higher output rate, but also allows the integration of secondary operations such as welding to be incorporated reliably with repeatability and increased production rates. The overall efficiency achieved with this process is significantly higher than carrying out the individual manufacturing process in a downstream operation.

Adrian Achermann started his career at Beutler Nova AG as an industrial mechanic trainee, graduating in 1992. He then went on to study engineering and business science in Switzerland and returned to Beutler Nova AG in 1998; initially working as an assembly manager and from 2002 on as plant manager. In 2010, the 36-year-old was appointed CEO of Beutler Nova AG and is now also in charge of Sales and Marketing.

Han kommer att tala om vikten av kvalitetssäkring inom svetsning och ge en översikt av standarder och regler. Eftersom man inte med säkerhet kan verifiera svetsens integritet i efterhand, och att kvalitet därmed inte kan tillföras genom efterföljande kontroller, måste kvalitetsarbetet ske proaktivt och styras genom hela tillverkningsprocessen. Under de senaste årtionden har man internationellt harmoniserat standarder för att ge möjlighet att på ett gängse sätt verifiera tillverkningen och därmed även ge en övergripande tilltro till företagets förmåga.

Mathias Lundin har varit ansvarig för det svenska bakgrundsarbetet för den internationella och Europeiska standardiseringen inom svetsområdet i drygt 10 år och är svetsingenjör tillika Svetskommissionens VD.