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News Release from: Wilde FEA
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 September 2006
Explore simulation-driven manufacturing
design
How simulation can help to reduce lead time and lower costs, improve die life, lower development costs and save engineering time will be demonstrated at free seminars in Europe.
Wilde FEA are holding free seminars in the fourth Quarter 2006 in Sweden, UK and the Netherlands The aim of the seminars is to demonstrate how simulation can help to reduce lead time and lower costs, improve die life, lower development costs, save engineering time and help clarify those elusive engineering problems
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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DEFORM enables you to conduct a virtual trial run that is faster and less expensive than conventional shop trials.
In addition, it can supply you with critical process information, such as microstructure, press loads and die stresses, which may not be available from the shop floor.
Your manufacturing problems and subsequent solutions can be visualized and tested before you commit to the high cost of dies and tools being cut.
You can also improve product quality.
DEFORM is the world's most popular 2D and 3D simulation program for optimising bulk forming, heat treatment and machining processes, including forging, extrusion, rolling, fastener installation, turning and drilling.
With advanced solvers and automatic meshing tecnology, process wizards, CAD-type interface and material and forming equipment libraries, DEFORM is fast, accurate and easy to use.
This seminar will cover the following topics.
* Metalforming fundamentals (the science).
* Process design and optimization (industrial case studies).
* Die failure analysis (theory and examples).
* Advanced applications (machining, heat treatment).
* The business case (no workshop is complete without one).
Whether you produce the smallest fastener or the largest forging, this workshop will demonstrate how your company can become more competitive by enabling it to achieve the following.
* Reduce production costs by minimizing manufacturing defects.
* Shorten the time required to bring products to market.
* Reduce the costs for tooling.
* Eliminate expensive and time-consuming prototype development.
* Increase production rates.
* Reduce material waste.
** Who will benefit by attending - this seminar is aimed at all engineers, scientists and researchers involved at a technical level in manufacturing processes, and also engineering and technical managers tasked with increasing company productivity and optimising manufacturing processes.
Registration details can be found online.
* About SFTC and Wilde FEA - SFTC is dedicated to the development of the DEFORM advanced manufacturing simulation software tools - used in a wide range of applications within industries such as automotive, aerospace, fastener, medical and general engineering.
The product range includes solutions for machining, heat treatment, die-stress, hot forging, cold forming, cogging and preform optimization.
With advanced solvers and automatic meshing technology, process wizards, a CAD-type interface and material and forming equipment libraries, DEFORM is fast, flexible, accurate and easy to use.
Wilde FEA is a member of the Wilde Group, a company of multi-disciplinary consulting engineers.
Since its formation in 1980, Wilde FEA has established an excellent reputation in the fields of FEA and CFD within mechanical, structural, manufacturing, civil and geotechnical engineering.
The company provides a range of products and services to help companies solve their engineering problems.
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