Stamped part design optimizatjion and intelligent open die forging

制造业是加拿大经济的主要驱动力。我们必须提高竞争力，以确保我们的生活水平。本研究从两个方面解决生产率问题：金属冲压和金属锻造。在冲压方面，这项研究将开发新的方法，通过在初始设计阶段评估产品设计，并向设计师提出建议，以降低成本，减少不可再生原材料和能源的使用，并提高制造业务的可持续性，从而提高原材料使用效率和模具成本。第二个项目，智能开式模锻系统的开发，旨在消除昂贵的定制工具，通过使用可编程的柔性工具，逐步形成工件，以生产金属锻件的需要。通过该系统制造的零件将比通过其他方式生产的零件具有更高的机械精度，并且将在准时制环境中以较短的交付周期和单位生产来实现。

Manufacturing is a primary driver of Canada's economy. Our competitiveness must be increased to assure our standard of living. This research attacks productivity issues in two areas: metal stamping and metal forging. In stamping, this research will develop new methods that improve the efficiency of raw material usage and tooling cost by evaluating product designs at the initial design stages and making recommendations to the designer that will decrease costs, reduce the use of non-renewable raw materials and energy, and will increase the sustainability of the manufacturing operation. The second project, development of the Intelligent Open Die Forging system, seeks to eliminate the need for expensive custom tooling to produce metal forgings by using programmable flexible tooling to incrementally form workpieces. Parts manufactured through this system will have higher mechanical preformance than parts produced through other means, and will do so with short lead-time, unit production in a Just-In-Time environment.