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Press Relase: Amino Announces Sheet Hydroforming Facility in North America in 2003 Posted by: Hydro_Publishing on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 07:28 PM Amino is announcing their plan to open a fluid forming (sheet hydroforming) production facility and sales and service center in North America by the end of 2003. Amino has recently purchased a modern 30,000 sq. ft. stamping facility on seven acres in St. Thomas, ON, Canada. St. Thomas is centrally located between Detroit and Toronto within easy reach of the heart of the automotive industry. Amino has over seventy years of experience in the Japanese sheet metal industry. Amino manufactures presses, equipment and tooling and also provides low volume production solutions utilizing their original forming technologies. Amino has over thirty years experience with fluid forming and were the first to introduce it to the automotive industry with the Toyota Sera program ten years ago. Amino will provide the following solutions for customers in North America: 1) low volume, niche programs, 2) Aggressive, complicated shapes to reduce reliance on plastics/composite materials and, 3) Ultra light, low weight panels. Amino will initially install one production line to make body in white for specialty and niche vehicles. The facility will be able to produce 150,000 ~ 250,000 automotive panel at one shift per year. Amino will also be able to supply other industries such as appliance, lighting, agricultural etc. Expansion is planned for additional production capability and the building of a R&D/tryout center. For more information contact: Trent Maki, P. Eng. Director Amino North America Corp. Ph. 81-544-27-0361 e-mail: tmaki@amino.co.jp website: www.amino.co.jp/english/amino_ef_mein.htm Note: Last Updated: December 30, 2002 Related links · More about All Topics · News by Hydro_Publishing Most read story in All Topics: Hydroforming Machine Builders Guide Amino Announces Sheet Hydroforming Facility in North America in 2003 Login/Create an account 0 Comments Threshold -1 0 1 2 3 4 5No comments Nested Flat Thread Oldest first Newest first Highest scores first Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.

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Vehicle Prototyping system, a type of jobshop

It would be interesting to see this automobile prototyping system.

An automotive engineering firm celebrated its acquisition by an Indian automaker and its subsequent expansion in a reception October 24. Farmington Hills-based Design Intent Engineering Inc. was founded in 1999 by its CEO, Matthew R. Pyzik, and three partners. The four had worked together for a large auto supplier as a "fire department" fixing troubled parts projects. Last June, Design Intent was acquired by Eicher Motors Ltd., an Indian builder of trucks, buses and motorcycles. Since then, Eicher has invested almost $1 million in Design Intent, including an advanced prototypingsystem. Employment has also risen by seven positions and now totals 70.
Pyzik said the acquisition gives Design Intent greater resources and a worldwide reach, and that the company will now offer more services with "emerging sectors," such as advanced materials and alternative energy power plants. Pyzik said the company's projecting 40 percent employment growth over the next 18 months. More about Eicher at www.eicherworld.com. More about Design Intent at www.designintenteng.com.

Re: [metalshapers] Handheld Scanner for vehicle body reverse engineering

[Calvin Banman] The arm we are using runs with Delcam's Powerinspect
software. (http://www.delcam.com/) It has an option for "point
clouds" that you can export as an IGES file. Apparently this would
make reverse engineering easy, but our company was too cheap to spring
for that. I worked with one of our engineers and found a way around
it. We can still export our information in an IGES file, but for it
to be useable for solid modeling; we have to measure a number of
points in a straight line around the part. Then using as many of these
lines as required to give us the detail level engineering needs, they
can import the file into their CAD software, and create a solid model.
Obviously the more data the better the end result. I use magnetic
strips to give me a straight line that I follow with the probe, but I
tried one freehand just to see if it worked and it did. I just drew
some lines on the part and followed it as well as I could. I do the
point lines in a crosshatch or checkerboard pattern. The beauty of
the portable CMM arm is that you can measure parts of infinite size.
Some of our frames are over 20 feet long, and to measure them, we end
up doing about 8-10 leapfrogs (position changes on the arm).

[Jim Peck]I am really interested in the techniques you use to develop
the CAD models.

[Calvin Banman] http://us.romer.com/
I use one of these at work. We don't have the laser scanning
attachment. The reverse engineering option is extra cost and our
company didn't want to spring For it, but I have found a work-around
that lets me give engineering the data they need to do a CAD Solid
model from measurements I take. I know the Honda plant in Allison,
Ontario uses one of the Romer arms to measure body panel fit on the
cars they build. When I was getting my training on the older version
of the arm, I brought in a 360 cylinder head and digitized the
combustion chamber shape.

[James Peck] The May/June 2006 issue of Time-Compression Technologies,
www.timecompress.com, discusses the use of a handheld self-positioned
Laser scanner to scan a vehicle body to produce a 3D CAD model of the
vehicle body. The vehicle scanned was the T-Rex Manufactured in Quebec
For the purpose of doing FEA and using CMM's.

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LASER SCANNING REVERSE ENGINEERING ON-SITE SERVICES CLASS-A SURFACING SOLID MODELING
Example 16: Hydroformed Frame Rails Click on an image to enlarge Problem: To inspect hydro-formed tubes and compare them to the nominal design intent (CAD geometry). The customer requested that a best-fit alignment be used to associate the measured data to the nominal CAD geometry. Process: The hydro-formed tubes were measured using a ‘line’ laser scanning machine. This allowed for full part surface definition totaling close to 2,000,000 data points on each part initially. The tubes were digitized from a number of different orientations which were all later associated together into the same coordinate system. Solution: Each scanned hydro-formed tube was thoroughly scanned, and overlaid with the nominal CAD data. A comparison between the measured data and the nominal design intent (CAD) was performed, resulting in ‘color map deviation charts’. These charts are delivered in .JPG, and .BMP formats which can be viewed or printed on any typical PC computer system.

Aluminum vehicle stampings

The August 2006 issue of MetalForming has an article on transfer
presses Anchor Manufacturing acquired to supply stampings to an
automotive OEM. A number of the stampings are aluminum. The article is
in PDF and can be downloaded. I felt the article was significant due
to the emphasis on aluminum.

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Repair - Laser Welding Versus Micro Welding - 06/06

Dieless'>http://www.thefabricator.com/PressTechnology/PressTechnology_Article.cfm?ID=611">Dieless

OSU receives grant, starts new forming organization
June 13, 2006
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Center for Precision Forming (CPF).
The organization will merge with the Center for Net Shape Manufacturing and conduct R&D on forming galvanized and ultrahigh-strength steel sheet; sheet and tube hydroforming; advanced techniques for material characterization and lubrication for stamping; and microforming and precision forming of sheet materials for automotive, aerospace, and appliance applications.
Several organizations and companies have expressed interested in joining the CPF, including GM, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Textron, Whirlpool, Boeing, and Minster.

Body Assembly Cells

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Client win for Delmia: Dassault Systemes, the French manufacturing technology company with its United States base in Auburn Hills, said Wednesday that automation system design specialist Autotool Inc. of Dublin, Ohio is using the Delmia V5 Robotics system for programming and simulation of its robotic auto assembly cells and lines. By simulating robot motions during design, Autotool can verify that the robots will be able to achieve all the required motions and that there will be no interferences. This means that when a system gets to the build phase, a huge amount of retool time is eliminated -- resulting in up to 30 percent cost savings in tool design and a 40 percent reductions in the number of machines, tools and work centers, according to a 2003 CIMData study on digital manufacturing. "We have used the software on a project where, without Delmia V5 Robotics simulation, it would have been impossible to figure out how to have the robots interface with the various fixtures," said Autotool design engineer Steve Forrest. "The two robots were in a fixed position. Simulation allowed us to optimize placement of the six different fixtures so that the robots could reach all positions and avoid any interferences." Delmia V5 Robotics allows tooling definition, workcell layout, robot programming and workcell simulation. More at http://www.blogger.com/www.autotoolinc.com or http://www.blogger.com/www.delmia.com.

Incremental sheet forming

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Incremental Sheet Forming Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) is a flexible process for forming sheet metal under the action of a mobile indenter such that almost any 3D shell shape can be made without specialised tooling. The process is recognised as a sustainable technology because it has the potential to enable a move towards small-scale localised production of customised sheet metal parts, as well as re-engineering of damaged or obsolete products. Aims To understand the process mechanics and expand the process capabilities in order to develop a flexible manufacturing system that is capable of achieving the specifications of typical sheet metal applications. To achieve this goal, the project seeks to: develop a technique for prediction and correction of elastic springback measure and predict forces on the indenter expand the process capabilities by experimenting with a range of set-ups The technology An ISF machine was commissioned at the IfM in October 2004. The machine was designed and built in-house and is the first dedicated rig built outside Japan. Unique features include a built-in force measurement system, rigid and accurate support of the indenter in three directions and space under the workpiece for the future addition of a second indenter. The path of the indenter is numerically controlled via a PCI board motion controller. Applications Potential applications include: manufacture or repair of automotive parts custom-made medical braces such as ankle supports bespoke architectural features casing for electrical goods Current research Research projects currently underway include: development of a model for tool force prediction with experimental verification development of a model for the prediction of elastic springback. Researchers Kathryn Jackson Julian Allwood Funding EPSRC Duration 2004 - 2007

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