Forming feasibility and costing made in Catia

Sheet metal forming software identifies 90% of the forming problems within minutes at product and process design stages and help in saving on materials costs.

Forming Technologies (FTI) released at the COE 2007 Automotive Industry Workshop in Dearborn, USA, its entire suite of CAA based applications for Release 18 of CATIA V5.

By incorporating CATIA V5's parametric design and analysis environment, the software is fully associative and regenerative to drastically reduce downstream design changes.

CATFORM and CATSTAMP software identify 90% of the forming problems within minutes at product and process design stages.

The software also enables 80% reduction of subsequent incremental analyses.

Cost Optimizer, CATNEST and ProgNest empower users to achieve material cost saving targets of 10-15% by highlighting cost savings opportunities on product and process geometries and by optimizing nesting layouts.

"Our CATIA V5 solutions have been extremely well received by our OEM and Tier 1 clients," said Michael Gallagher, vice president of Sales and Marketing, FTI.

"We recognize the importance of maintaining full compatibility with the latest releases of CATIA since our solutions play such a valuable role in our clients' engineering and procurement processes.

We have added several new features that will dramatically enhance our user's performance and increase efficiency".

FTI's CATIA CAA V5 based solutions provide CATIA users with the only fully regenerative and associative environment for fast and accurate blank generation, said FTI to Manufacturingtalk.

It includes formability analysis, nest evaluation, and material cost reductions.

The software can simulate multiple scenarios in minutes while taking full advantage of total integration within the CATIA environment.

All CATIA V5 solutions from FTI are now available in 64-bit versions.

It is specifically designed for engineers, estimators, purchasers, planners, and tool and die designers.

Currently, Forming Technologies are maintaining products in CATIA within releases 15 through 18.

* About Forming Technologies - Forming Technologies Incorporated (FTI) is the world's leading developer of computer aided engineering software for design, and simulation of sheet metal components.

For the past 18 years, FTI has provided OEMs and suppliers in the automotive, aerospace, and appliance industries with innovative software and training solutions designed to reduce development time and material costs.

FTI has trained over 12,000 engineers in Formability and Die Design and is considered the Best in Class around the world for their industry training programs.

FTI and it's global network of business partners provide sales and technical support to customers in more than 35 countries.

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