Stamped part design optimizatjion and intelligent open die forging

制造业是加拿大经济的主要推动力。我们必须提高竞争力以保证我们的生活水平。本研究针对两个领域的生产力问题：金属冲压和金属锻造。在冲压方面，本研究将开发新的方法，通过在初始设计阶段评估产品设计，并向设计师提出降低成本，减少不可再生原材料和能源的使用，并增加制造操作的可持续性，从而提高原材料使用效率和模具成本。第二个项目是智能开式模锻系统的开发，旨在通过使用可编程的灵活工具来增量成形工件，从而消除对昂贵的定制工具生产金属锻件的需求。通过该系统生产的零件将比通过其他方式生产的零件具有更高的机械性能，并且将在及时生产环境中以较短的交货时间和单位生产来实现。

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.