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Nissan Optimizes Surface Defects with TriboForm! Accuracy Up by 20% – Detection Errors Cut by 10%

Case Study Opens Sustainable Growth and Business Evolution In this blog post Ms. Natsumi Goda from the Stamping Engineering Department at Nissan Motor Company (hereafter Nissan), reveals a never before seen evaluation project performed for a hood-outer part. This was... View Article

Ford Solved Aluminum Hood Splits with TriboForm Friction Analysis!

In this blog post we interview Ford Otosan’s Die Process Supervisor Cem Bilgili who oversaw the design and tryout of the first ever aluminum parts for the new Ford Transit. Cracks arose in production for the hood inner assembly despite... View Article

How an Advanced Friction Model Rescued Five Parts at Major Tool Maker in China!

In this anonymous blog post, one of the largest Chinese tool makers shares their results from a series of five case studies conducted using TriboForm’s friction model to enhance their sheet metal forming simulations. Recently, issues occurred in tryout and... View Article

Prediction of Springback for an Ultra high strenght steel B-pillar

Cold stamped part suppliers are facing a new challenging era of ultra-high strength steel (UHSS) applications, with pressure to increase passive safety and decrease energy consumption. The challenges associated with UHSS are the result of relatively high frictional forces and... View Article

Aluminium Forming Meets Friction and Lubrication

In this blog post we reveal a case study for a problematic aluminium hood-outer whereby splits were observed along the part during try-out. Those splits were however not detected in the initial forming simulations, which allowed TriboForm to rescue the... View Article

TriboForm Strikes Again: Covering the all-new Volvo V60

In this blog post we see how Volvo Cars includes tribological effects in stamping simulations with TriboForm. Special focus is given to the early tryout phase of dies in order to secure die tryout by solving as many problems as... View Article

Renault: the Talisman Trunk Lid Inner Story

We have been saying it for some time. More and more automotive companies are demanding a more accurate description of tribology conditions in forming simulations to prevent production issues and increase overall production stability for higher quality parts. In this... View Article

ASPECT project – Friction in metal forming

ASPECT European Regional Development Fund TriboForm is partner in the INTERREG project ASPECT on friction in metal forming. ASPECT stands for Advanced Simulation and control of tribology in metal forming Processes for the North-West European Consumer goods and Transport sectors.... View Article

Volvo Car Group: Door-inner Volvo XC90

With the accelerating pace of developments in the automotive industry, high impact innovations are required to ensure future growth. To shrink time lines and reduce development costs of new vehicles, software tools are increasingly used at Volvo Cars. TriboForm is... View Article

Daimler AG: Door-outer Mercedes-Benz C-class Coupé

In the stamping of automotive parts, friction and lubrication play a key role. To improve the quality of metal forming simulations, TriboForm is integrated to adequately describe these tribological factors and applied to the door-outer of the all new Mercedes-Benz... View Article

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References

'Case Study Opens Sustainable Growth and Business Evolution'

Ms. N. Goda, Nissan Motors, Japan
'No More Splits for New Parts for the New Ford Transit Model'

Cem Bilgili, Ford & Volkan Karakus, AutoForm
'In this anonymous blog post, one of the largest Chinese tool makers shares their results from a series of five case studies conducted using TriboForm’s friction model to enhance their sheet metal forming simulations. Recently, issues occurred in tryout and production, in which they could not predict wrinkles in their initial sheet metal forming simulations. See how AutoForm plus TriboForm’s Plug-In results in improved predictability of wrinkling issues seen in reality.'

Sanaz Berahmani, TriboForm
'Cold stamped part suppliers are facing a new challenging era of ultra-high strength steel (UHSS) applications, with pressure to increase passive safety and decrease energy consumption. The challenges associated with UHSS are the result of relatively high frictional forces and a sensitivity to substantially high tool forces during the forming process. Moreover, springback effects can be significant, manifesting through wall warping, twisting, and longitudinal warping. To achieve high quality part production along with a robust process chain, process engineers need to identify the origin of springback and design the forming simulation as precisely as possible. One important contributor to securing the forming simulation quality is the digitalization of tribological conditions (such as friction conditions) based on real process conditions. In this blog post, I detail the results of a recent project by a major Tier 1 part supplier based in Japan — adopting an advanced TriboForm friction model in the forming simulation of a UHSS B-pillar.'

Motoharu Namiki, AutoForm Engineering Japan Ltd
'A case study for a problematic aluminum hood-outer whereby splits were observed along the part during try-out. See how TriboForm rescued the part by integrating the true tribological behavior.'

Chanho Lee - AutoForm Engineering Korea Ltd
'Volvo Cars, like most OEMs, is looking for the next step to improve simulation accuracy and reduce tryout corrections. This is why they invest in TriboForm it is the next step forward.'

Marc Lambriks - AutoForm Engineering
'Accounting for the actual tribology system and it’s variations is critical for use in stamping simulations and brings simulations closer to press-shop reality. '

Julie Lacues, Groupe Renault
'Simulation of temperature effects in the start-up of stamping production is the key topic in the EU ASPECT project. TriboForm delivers part of the required simulation technology'

Consortium - ASPECT project
'At the CAE & Die Development Department of Volvo Car Group, it is concluded that friction simulation is the way forward for improving metal forming simulations'

Dr. M. Sigvant, Volvo Car Group
'If the quality of metal forming simulations is to be improved, an adequate description of tribological factors is required'

Prof. K. Roll, Daimler AG

Customer Cases

References

'Case Study Opens Sustainable Growth and Business Evolution'

'No More Splits for New Parts for the New Ford Transit Model'

'A case study for a problematic aluminum hood-outer whereby splits were observed along the part during try-out. See how TriboForm rescued the part by integrating the true tribological behavior.'

'Volvo Cars, like most OEMs, is looking for the next step to improve simulation accuracy and reduce tryout corrections. This is why they invest in TriboForm it is the next step forward.'

'Accounting for the actual tribology system and it’s variations is critical for use in stamping simulations and brings simulations closer to press-shop reality. '

'Simulation of temperature effects in the start-up of stamping production is the key topic in the EU ASPECT project. TriboForm delivers part of the required simulation technology'

'At the CAE & Die Development Department of Volvo Car Group, it is concluded that friction simulation is the way forward for improving metal forming simulations'

'If the quality of metal forming simulations is to be improved, an adequate description of tribological factors is required'