Considerations regarding the incremental forming process in manufacturig
Journal Title: Proceedings in Manufacturing Systems - Year 2017, Vol 12, Issue 2
Abstract
The incremental deformation process of the sheet metal blanks allows the realization, without the use of dies with a high degree of complexity, of a wide variety of parts, mostly for automotive (car body parts) and bio-medical industry (prosthetic devices). The process has great flexibility and could represent a manufacturing solution when small batches or even prototypes of complex sheet metal parts must be manufactured. However, many technological aspects of the process are still to be researched and improved, to determine manufacturing companies to implement it on wide-scale, industrial basis. The paper gave an overview, based upon both a literature review and some results obtained by the authors of the present work, over the main aspects of incremental forming process as manufacturing solution for sheet metal parts. The main methods, tools and technological equipment used within the process are presented. The study focuses on the flexible approach regarding single point incremental forming, which involves the use of 3 axis CNC machine-tools, using hemispherical punches instead of cylindrical mills, combined with low-price dies for processing the parts. To further increase the flexibility by using flexible tools that can be easily adapted to new types of parts, a new modular tool assembly was proposed.
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Melania Tera, Radu-Eugen Breaz
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