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News Release from: French Technology Press Bureau | Subject: Virtual manufacturing software - press tools
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 March 2007
Press tool dies virtually manufactured
Virtual manufacturing software that reduces cost and improves productivity in the press tool and die market offers unmatched accuracy and now includes hot forming.
ESI Group is pleased to announce the forthcoming release, in March 2007, of the 2007 version of PAM-STAMP 2G, the virtual manufacturing software value chain that reduces cost and improves productivity in the tool and die market PAM-STAMP 2G 2007 has been greatly improved, offering unmatched accuracy and improved usability from feasibility to validation for Full line die simulation
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Nov 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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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, springback prediction and automatic die compensation with PAM-AUTOSTAMP.
The PAM-DIEMAKER module, based on INPRO technology and designed to create the die addendum within minutes, focuses on user-friendliness and workflow streamlining.
A major feature, Auto-addendum, provides engineers with an extremely quick and easy way to create an initial die addendum.
PAM-QUIKSTAMP plays a crucial role in the stamp-simulation value chain by providing reliable formability assessment quickly and easily, so as to support early die design and process iterations, before transferring directly to PAM-AUTOSTAMP for detailed validation and tolerance control after springback.
ESI Group's metal forming solutions now extend to: the design and simulation of tube hydro-forming dies with PAM-TUBE 2G; part feasibility check 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 62.2m in 2005.
The company employs over 500 high-level specialists worldwide, and covers more than 30 countries.
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