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News Release from: French Technology Press Bureau | Subject: Tube bending/hydro-forming simulation
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 July 2006
Software simulates tube
bending/hydro-forming
A suite of stamping-simulation software packages are designed for tube bending and hydro-forming processes with realistic tool modelling and behaviour for better forming simulation results.
ESI Group has announced the launch of PAM-TUBE 2G, a new suite of stamping-simulation software packages that are tailor-made for tube bending and hydro-forming processes PAM-TUBE 2G supports all stages, from design to product manufacturing
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 1 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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PAM-TUBE 2G is an intuitive software package, where the user is guided through the different steps of the process.
In response to market demand, PAM-TUBE 2G offers accurate tube-bending simulation with realistic tool modelling and behaviour for better forming simulation results, as well as offering coupling capabilities for more accurate product performance assessment.
"ESI Group is engaging in a new phase in its long-term partnership related to advanced tube manufacturing technology," explained Martin Skrikerud, product manager at ESI Group.
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"PAM-TUBE 2G development has benefited from academic and industrial know-how".
"Thanks to a partnership with the University of Siegen in Germany, and close collaboration with DaimlerChrysler, Audi, Schuler Hydro Forming, bu+Engineering, hde Solutions, Eberspaecher and ThyssenKrupp Budd, we have brought a high level of confidence to tube-bending and hydro-forming simulation in a robust product solution for industrial manufacturing." PAM-TUBE 2G is a specialised engineering solution, which accelerates development cycles by reducing tube-bending design and hydro-forming costs.
It offers a unique environment combining specialised design tools for tube and hydro-forming processes, so that users can concentrate on fast strain and ovalisation predictions, automatic addendum design and welding considerations for mass production, instead of having to deal with software issues.
This solution offers extensive functionalities, including distributed parallel processing for bending, an annealing option, and multistage macro templates.
* About ESI Group's metal-forming simulation solutions - PAM-STAMP 2G offers a unique stamping-simulation value chain, from quick stamping die design, through early feasibility, to final validation and quality control.
The full range of features includes: parametric and surface-oriented binder and addendum generation with PAM-DIEMAKER; rapid and optimal feasibility analysis with PAM-QUIKSTAMP Plus; and highly accurate forming validation, which can provide surface defect visualisation, spring-back prediction and automatic die compensation, with PAM-AUTOSTAMP.
ESI Group's metal-forming solutions now also include the design and simulation of tube hydro-forming dies with PAM-TUBE 2G, and part-feasibility checks and rapid die creation integrated within PLM environment, with PAM-TFA and PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5.
* About ESI Group - ESI Group is a pioneer and world-leading supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials.
ESI Group has developed an entire suite of coherent, industry-oriented applications to simulate a product's behaviour realistically during testing, to fine-tune the manufacturing processes in accordance with the desired product performance, and to evaluate the environment's impact on product usage.
ESI Group's products, which have a proven track record in manufacturing and have been combined in multi-trade value chains, represent a unique collaborative, virtual engineering solution, known as the Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous manner.
By drastically reducing costs and development lead times, VTOS solutions offer major competitive advantages and make it possible to eliminate gradually the need for physical prototypes.
This integrated protocol allows all the company's solutions to work with each other and with applications developed by independent software vendors.
By significantly reducing costs and development lead times and enabling product/process synergies, VTOS solutions progressively eliminate the need for physical prototypes during product development, thus offering major competitive advantages.
ESI Group is listed on the Eurolist compartment C of Euronext Paris, and generated sales of EUR 60 million in 2004.
The company employs nearly 500 high-level specialists worldwide and covers more than 30 countries.
Virtual Try-Out Space and VTOS are registered trademarks of ESI Group.
All other products, names and companies mentioned in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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