Saturday, November 28, 2015

India's Kamal Mould Selects ZW3D

www.zwsoft.comGUANGZHOU, China, Nov 28, 2015 - ZW3D, one of the world's leading suppliers of advanced CAD/CAM solutions for the manufacturing industry, announced that it has been chosen by Kamal Mould , a reputed manufacturer and supplier of Dies and Moulds.

Backed by abundant experience of more than 20 years and certified with ISO 9001 for total quality management, Kamal Mould specializes in manufacturing products such as Mare Complete Article, Mould Picture and Plastic Mould, and serves clients in East Asia, South East Asia, Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent.

The Need

With the increasingly booming market in India, enhancing working efficiency, lowering production cost and improving competitiveness were in urgent need for the company. Specifically, it was necessary to create multi-cavity mould design and develop easy and fast Implementation.

The Solution

Various product verification tools and healing features in ZW3D enable part design to be precisely analyzed and checked, ensuring the structure of multi-cavity mould to be possibly carried out.


In addition, thanks to the solid-surface hybrid modeling technology, interchange between solid & surface becomes feasible by using face region method and parting line method. Therefore, faster and easier core and cavity splitting can be handily achieved this way.


“ZW3D has excellent return on investment. It has supreme features in CAD and mould, such as interchange between solid and surface modeling, effortless core cavity creation in mould wizard and lower product development cost,” said Mr. Sumit V Luhar, Technical Manager in KM. “We were ready to purchase other CAD software, but after evaluating ZW3D, we decided to purchase ZW3D.”

About Kamal Mould

Established in the year 1991 in India, Kamal Mould has professionally engaged in manufacturing plastic disposable articles, such as spoons, forks and knifes, plastic injection mould and spoon mould and so forth. Plus, the company is the only group in the market that manufactures 10 & 25 litter jars. Having 11 to 25 employees, it is by now capable to achieve up to 1 crore annual turnover. For more information, visit http://www.kamalmoulds.com.

About ZW3D CAD/CAM

ZW3D is cost-effective CAD/CAM software for 3D modeling, mold design, and machining, which takes engineers from concept to finished product in one easy-to-use, single collaborative environment. For more information about ZW3D, visit http://www.zwsoft.com/ZW3D/ or follow ZWSOFT on facebook.

COMSOL Multiphysics, Server v5.2 Released for Creating Simulation Apps

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BURLINGTON, MA, USA, Nov 28, 2015 - COMSOL, Inc. the leading provider of multiphysics modeling, simulation, and application design software, announced the release of COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.2 providing the simulation community the only fully integrated environment for creating simulation apps. This version of COMSOL Multiphysics and COMSOL Server simulation software environment delivers new features, improved stability and robustness, and faster execution. Major upgrades to the Application Builder available in COMSOL Multiphysics include the new Editor Tools for easy creation of user interface components, commands for dynamic updates of graphics, and more control over the deployment of simulation apps. Running simulation apps using COMSOL Server in a corporate network or in the cloud is now up to five times faster. Many updates, new features and simulation application examples are also available for the add-on electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical products.

Clearly Communicate Designs with the Application Builder

With this simulation app users can test different beams, materials, and loads to analyze the resulting stress, strain, and displacement.

In COMSOL Multiphysics 5.2, the Application Builder features an optimized workflow. The new Editor Tools make the creation of user interface components easy and quick. Simulation specialists can now bring any model parameter, physics setting, and results, such as numerical data and plots into the user interface of an app with a few mouse clicks. This is one of several tools available to create practical simulation apps and share the power and accuracy of COMSOL Multiphysics throughout organizations.

The Application Builder allows companies to communicate across multiple departments, knowing that the simulation expert is able to maintain control, enforce quality standards, and ensure that the results can be trusted.

“We leveraged the Application Builder to more efficiently communicate complex design ideas across multiple simulation and process departments, which has allowed app users to easily explore the outcome of proposed designs,” said Borja Lazaro Toralles, Research Engineer on the Manufacturing Technology Center (MTC) simulation team. MTC used COMSOL products to model the shaped metal deposition (SMD) 3D printing technique and created a simulation app based on it.

Among the new user-inspired features is the ability to update graphics while running an app. The app designer can present app users with different plots while solving; this takes them through the progression of the solution process and presents them, for example, with geometry, mesh, and solution plots. The app designer can also customize the graphics toolbar with new buttons and include camera movements.

Collaborate with COMSOL Server Software

The new features in version 5.2 of COMSOL Server are designed to facilitate collaboration between users and departments while simplifying administration tasks. “A new caching function allows applications to start five times faster or more; additionally, administrators can assign a single application to be launched instantaneously when users log in,” said Ed Fontes, CTO of COMSOL. “These are just few of the many new features and concepts introduced with version 5.2.”

COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.2 provides simulations experts with a cutting edge user experience in simulation app design and sharing by integrating highly productive model building, app design, and deployment tools that allow their simulation applications to be used by users everywhere.

“We’ve been creating simulation apps that our field engineers can apply directly without having to go through R&D,” said Brice McPherson, Senior Engineer at Wolfspeed. His team at Wolfspeed uses simulation in the design of high-performance, extreme environment wide band gap power semiconductor packages. “I can foresee simulation apps becoming the primary tool used by our engineers.”

The thermal properties of a finned pipe are derived from the results of a conjugate heat transfer simulation. The app user can change aspects of the design such as the arrangement of the inner grooves and outer fins.

Extensive Library of Apps in Version 5.2

To demonstrate the power of the Application Builder, a plethora of new apps have been added to the extensive Application Libraries showcasing the capabilities of the Application Builder. The Application Libraries include apps ranging from membrane dialysis, water treatment, thermoelectric cooling, heat exchangers, touchscreen design, magnetic prospecting, piezo-acoustic transducers, muffler design, MEMS sensors, and pressure vessels.

“With version 5.2 we ship about 50 apps demonstrating the depth and power of the Application Builder and the COMSOL Server,” said Svante Littmarck, CEO of COMSOL. “These apps are meant to provide COMSOL users with examples that can be easily inspected, edited, and used as a starting point for their own applications. We had a lot of fun building these apps and love the new Application Builder functionality! For example, if we take a look at the Mixer app, which ships with the Mixer Module, we are presented with a sophisticated application that can be used to simulate almost any type of mixer without requiring expertise in differential equations or CFD. This takes modeling and simulation to a whole new level.”

This simulation app is intended for the simulation of mixers equipped with axial or radial impellers. For a given geometry, the application computes the efficiency of the mixing process. The vessels, which are available in three different shapes, can also be equipped with baffles and any of eleven different types of impellers.

Hundreds of Updates to COMSOL Multiphysics, COMSOL Server, and Add-On Products

Version 5.2 provides new core functionality features inspired by feedback from the growing COMSOL Multiphysics user community. For example, users can now add annotations to 3D and 2D plots. A new tetrahedral meshing algorithm minimizes the need for manual interactions when meshing large CAD models. Mesh Parts are introduced for integrating STL surface meshes and NASTRAN volumetric meshes into the geometry building work flow. The use of selections is expanded upon and can now be used for singling out which parts of a solution should be used in results processing and visualizations.

Version 5.2 also introduces enhancements to the existing functionalities of COMSOL Multiphysics and its add-on products. Users will benefit from more flexible license management, allowing them to work on their designs knowing that if the connection to the license manager is disrupted they have the option to save their files and resume once a connection is reestablished. Users of the Structural Mechanics Module and the AC/DC Module will benefit from the new External Materials functionality allowing materials to be algorithmically defined by shared library files written in the C language. The most prominent use of this new functionality will be for nonlinear materials that include hysteresis (history dependency) and irreversibility effects.

Simulation app based on a model of a capacitive touchscreen. The user can control the position and orientation of a finger pressing the touchscreen, and then compute the capacitance matrix.

Highlights of New Features and Tools Available in Version 5.2
  • COMSOL Multiphysics, Application Builder, and COMSOL Server: Streamlined workflow in the Application Builder with Editor Tools for bringing any model parameter, physics setting, and results such as numerical data and plots into the user interface of an app with a few mouse clicks. Enhancements to user experience with the customization of graphic toolbar buttons, plot while solving, dynamics updates of graphics, improved copy-paste between applications, and more. A more powerful COMSOL Server with applications launching up to five times faster, the ability to reconnect to running applications, and launch of single dedicated applications upon login. More robust license management with better handling of lost connection and licenses released during a session.
  • Geometry and Mesh: Mesh Parts are introduced making it easier to import surface and volume meshes for use in geometry building. More robust tetrahedral meshing. An additional geometry operation, Partition Domains, to extend the reach of hexahedral meshing.
  • Mathematical Modeling Tools, Studies, and Visualization: Annotations for displaying customized texts and results in 2D and 3D plots. Users can choose to store only a selected part of the solution for post-processing purposes. PARDISO solver for clusters. Improved FFT studies. Residual operator that can be used to plot the residual in each point in space to get an intuitive visualization of where the error is largest.
  • Apps: More than 50 app examples demonstrating the power of the Application Builder for electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical simulations.
  • Multipurpose: The Particle Tracing Module supports model particle-matter interactions for simulating high-energy physics and powerful particle counters for counting the number of particles in domains and on boundaries.
  • Electrical: The AC/DC Module features an effective nonlinear constitutive relations formulation for approximating nonlinear magnetic materials in the frequency domain. Shared library files can be used to create magnetic materials that include hysteresis and irreversible effects. Smith plots are available in the RF Module.
  • Fluid: Laminar three-phase flow multiphysics interface in the CFD Module based on the phase-field method. More turbulence support for rotating machinery and a free surface tool for frozen rotor studies. With the Pipe Flow Module users can model compressible flow in pipes and expansion and contractions due to sudden changes in the cross-section area of the pipes.
  • Chemical: The Chemical Reaction Engineering Module allows catalytic particles of different particle shapes (spheres, cylinders, flakes, and user defined based on area and volume). The Corrosion Module supports the modeling of thin beam structures.
  • Mechanical: Shared library files can be used to create nonlinear structural materials. Contact robustness improvements in the Structural Mechanics Module for curved surfaces and small relative displacements. The Heat Transfer Module has a symmetry plane for surface-to-surface radiation and external temperatures for thin layers. The Acoustics Module includes octave and 1/3rd octave plots.
Availability

To watch the release highlights video and download COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.2 now, visit www.comsol.com/release/5.2

About COMSOL

COMSOL is a global provider of simulation software for product design and research to technical enterprises, research labs, and universities. Its COMSOL Multiphysics product is an integrated software environment for creating physics-based models and simulation apps. A particular strength is its ability to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. Add-on products expand the simulation platform for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow, and chemical applications. Interfacing tools enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics simulations with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the CAE market. Simulation experts rely on the COMSOL Server product to deploy apps to their design teams, manufacturing departments, test laboratories, and customers throughout the world. Founded in 1986, COMSOL employs more than 400 people in 22 offices worldwide and extends its reach with a network of distributors. For more information, visit http://www.comsol.com.

Friday, November 6, 2015

POSCO Standardizes on Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, Nov 6, 2015 - Dassault Systems (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced that POSCO, one of the world’s largest steel producers, is using Dassault Systems’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform for POSCO’s virtual commissioning system and virtual training system to digitize and simulate its manufacturing operations, processes and equipment. This will help POSCO standardize and improve performance at its facilities, reinforce its competitiveness and accelerate its growth in the world’s second largest industry. 

Dassault Systems’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides powerful digital production and simulation applications to create a “virtual twin”- a virtual 3D replica of an actual physical structure -in order to better manage products, processes and plants. With this “virtual twin,” companies can simulate the complex production processes of a smart factory through accurate data interpretation management and troubleshoot manufacturing problems before they occur. Companies can also capture and share knowledge, manage equipment specifications from planning to building phases, work more efficiently and better plan for manufacturing investments. 

"We expect to decrease the number of field tests and field trial periods with our virtual commissioning system and virtual training system, as we can pretest systems and equipment virtually before deploying them in the field for real,” said Yongsoo Kim, Senior Researcher, POSCO Engineering Solution Center. “We will continue to advance the development environment with Dassault Systems' cooperation."

“The steel industry is about multi-decades asset lifecycles and high volume production, therefore even small and incremental improvements in operations and sustainability can have huge business impacts,” said Stephane DeclĂ©e, Vice President, Energy, Process and Utilities Industry, Dassault Systems. “The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables customers in the process industry to connect, model, simulate and optimize every stage of the business cycle to create a virtual twin experience fully connected with their physical assets to improve safety, efficiency, profitability and sustainability. We clearly see POSCO as an industry leader in developing such an innovative approach.”

For more information on Dassault Systems’ industry solution experiences for the Energy, Process and Utilities Industry, visit http://www.3ds.com/industries/energy-process-utilities/

About Dassault Systems

Dassault Systems, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systems’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 190,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

Dassault, bluenove Join to Make Open Innovation Accessible to Many

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, Nov 6, 2015 - Dassault Systems (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced its partnership with bluenove Group, an internationally-renowned open innovation consultancy. The cooperation will transform the way in which open innovation can be delivered and accelerated to help companies invent products, services and solutions.

Particularly relevant to the high-tech industry, open innovation seeks to improve innovation dynamics within companies by involving internal collaborators and external ecosystems including clients, research centers, universities, startups and suppliers. The high rate of disruption in the marketplace, as well as the growing fusion of high-tech with transportation, health and other industries, increasingly pressure companies to be first to market in order to stay competitive.

The value proposition of this partnership is that of combining the industry solution experience in Dassault Systems’ high-tech portfolio called “Social Ideation” with the consulting of its Design Studio (experience thinking methodology) and with bluenove’s expertise in delivering methods and software tools supporting collective intelligence.

Based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, “Social Ideation” is the first cloud-based open innovation management solution to provide social collaboration that connects ideation with product design at all phases of an innovation project. With “Social Ideation”, high-tech companies can accelerate prototyping ideas into tangible assets that can be integrated into product portfolios.

“Trends and technologies such as big data, connected objects, mobile services and 3D printing are changing how companies innovate - while startups have long been sources of disruption, large industrials are now establishing open innovation programs to harness resources that can drive the evolution of industries,” said Martin Duval, President and COO, bluenove Group. “Using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, these companies can now work much more efficiently. The ideas, intelligence and data that are generated from bluenove’s open innovation strategies can now be connected with product development on a single platform, simplifying the overall innovation process.”

“To be successful, open innovation must efficiently bridge the gap between the generation of ideas and their transformation into tangible product experiences,” said Olivier Ribet, Vice President High-tech Industry, Dassault Systems. “With the Design Studio’s experience thinking consulting services, our ‘Social Ideation’ industry solution experience and partnership with bluenove, Dassault Systems aims to further support and develop its high-tech customers’ innovation initiatives. Our goal is to foster inspiration, ideation and identification of the best ideas, and facilitate their transformation into world-class designs, engineering excellence and successful projects.”

For more information on Dassault Systems’ industry solution experiences for high-tech: http://www.3ds.com/industries/high-tech/

About Dassault Systems

Dassault Systems, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systems’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 190,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Bentley Releases Sewer, Stormwater V8i SELECTseries 5 Products

EXTON, PA, USA, Nov 2, 2015 - Bentley Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, announced the general access of its new SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, StormCAD, and CivilStorm V8i (SELECTseries 5) products for the analysis and design of wastewater and stormwater systems. In addition to being available as stand-alone applications and to running on CAD and GIS platforms, the V8i (SELECTseries 5) sewer and stormwater products can now be used from within the V8i (SELECTseries 4) versions of OpenRoads-based products – combining 3D design and hydraulic analysis capabilities in the same platform. The resulting comprehensive civil solution eliminates the need for extra import/export steps or file conversions.


StormCAD from within OpenRoads

Commenting on the new releases, Chris Haines, senior civil engineer and PAR-BIM technical lead, Drainage & Utilities, Parsons, said, “The integration of Bentley’s OpenRoads civil design functionality with the advanced capabilities of Bentley’s storm and sewer analysis products will be a huge benefit to productivity and quality for our highway drainage design workflows.”

Gregg Herrin, Bentley Systems director of product management, hydraulics and hydrology, said, “With these new releases, the automated hydraulic design functionality of our sewer and storm products can be effortlessly combined with the 3D physical design and terrain modeling capabilities of Bentley’s other civil products. From an information mobility standpoint, this has a direct and substantial positive impact on roadway, site, and municipal work where hydraulic engineering is just one part of a much larger project.”

Terrain model elevations on profiles

Bentley’s SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, StormCAD, and CivilStorm V8i (SELECTseries 5) products provide the following capabilities:
  • Ground elevations from terrain models may be used during automated design runs to consider “cover” along a pipe’s length, improving decision making related to system design.
  • Terrain model elevations can also now be added to profiles, improving the resulting visualization and the user’s understanding of the physical network.
  • New low-impact development (LID) elements are now available, making it easier to model a wider range of controls for stormwater management.
  • With the new lateral link element, engineers can include lateral pipes in their hydraulic analysis without creating “fake” elements where the laterals connect to the main pipe.
  • Easy access to the Bentley Communities professional networking site is embedded within the applications, facilitating communications between users and Bentley’s hydraulic modeling experts.
  • Users of any of these SELECTseries 5 releases now benefit from the products’ support of MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 3), OpenRoads V8i (SELECTseries 4), AutoCAD 2015 and 2016, and ArcGIS 10.2 and 10.3 (SewerGEMS only), giving them the ability to model from within the latest MicroStation, OpenRoads, AutoCAD, or ArcGIS version.
For additional information about:
  • SewerGEMS or SewerCAD V8i (SELECTseries 5), click here.
  • CivilStorm or StormCAD V8i (SELECTseries 5), click here
To learn more about SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, StormCAD, and CivilStorm V8i (SELECTseries 5) products, view this webinar on demand.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling,ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. For more information, visit www.bentley.com.

John Gould Joins Stratasys as Prez NA Operations

MN, USA and REHOVOT, Israel, Nov 2, 2015 - Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq:SSYS), the 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, announced it has tapped Dell, Inc. veteran John Gould as the newest member of the company's leadership team. With more than 20 years of global management and technology experience, Gould will serve as president of North American operations.

John Gould, president for Stratasys North America, brings more than 20 years of global management and technology experience. Photo:Stratasys

With experience as an executive leader at computing giant Dell, Gould has deep operational expertise and a strong track record of success with go-to-market strategy and global sales leadership.

"Stratasys has helped define the market for 3D printing and next generation manufacturing," said Stratasys Chief Business Officer, Josh Claman. "With a strong market position across North America and worldwide, Stratasys is committed to investing in key people to continue its growth and leadership position. I'm excited to bring John Gould on board, and I'm confident he will lead our North American team to the next level of growth."

As president of North American operations and a crucial member of the executive leadership team, he is charged with defining the company's North American strategy to expand the business, maintain Stratasys' thought leadership position, and continue to improve both the customer and channel partner experience.

"As a defining force in 3D printing solutions, Stratasys is in the unique position to capture additional market opportunities throughout North America," said Gould. "I'm very excited about the opportunity that lies ahead for our customers, resellers and Stratasys, and I am confidentStratasys can continue to build significant momentum across the region."

Gould comes to Stratasys from online marketing and advertising solutions provider ReachLocal, Inc. where he acted as chief revenue officer and general manager of North America. With full P&L responsibility, Gould also had functional ownership for all sales channels: inside, outside, national accounts and partner channels.

At Dell, Inc., Gould served as executive director and general manager for the company's IT Consulting Division for both the Americas and EMEA regions. He delivered multi-year, double-digit revenue growth for the division (over $400 million in total revenue) while increasing the division's operating income. The industry veteran also has senior sales and marketing leadership experience from market leaders: ADP,Compaq Computer Corporation and The Mathworks. Gould has a bachelor's degree in economics from Connecticut College and an MBA in general management and marketing from Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management.

About Stratasys Ltd

For more than 25 years, Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq:SSYS) has been a defining force and dominant player in 3D printing and additive manufacturing - shaping the way things are made. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel, the company empowers customers across a broad range of vertical markets by enabling new paradigms for design and manufacturing. The company's solutions provide customers with unmatched design freedom and manufacturing flexibility - reducing time-to-market and lowering development costs, while improving designs and communications. Stratasys subsidiaries include MakerBot and Solidscape and the Stratasys ecosystem includes 3D printers producing prototypes and parts; a wide range of 3D printing materials; parts on-demand via Stratasys Direct Manufacturing; strategic consulting and professional services; and Thingiverse/GrabCAD communities with 5+ million free design components, printable files. With 3,000 employees and 800 granted or pending additive manufacturing patents, Stratasys has received more than 30 technology and leadership awards. For more information, visit www.stratasys.com or http://blog.stratasys.com.

AutoForm-HemPlannerplus Integrates with AutoFormplus R6

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WILEN B WOLLERAU, Switzerland, Nov 2, 2015 - AutoForm Engineering GmbH, the leading supplier of software solutions for the sheet metal forming industry, presents its enhanced AutoForm-HemPlannerplus software, which is now fully integrated in the AutoFormplus R6 version. This integration offers all the advantages of AutoFormplus R6’s efficient workflow and a newly enhanced graphical user interface.

Roll hemming process concept

The accuracy of the hemming operation is very important since it affects the surface appearance and surface quality of the component. Material deformations, which occur during the hemming process, can lead to dimensional deviations and other typical hemming defects, including splits and wrinkles in the flange, material overlaps in the corner areas and material roll-in. To address these important issues, AutoForm Engineering offers the enhanced version of AutoForm-HemPlannerplus, which allows for the efficient planning of hemming process.


Evaluation of hemming defects and material roll-in

AutoForm-HemPlannerplus, which is now fully integrated in AutoFormplus R6, enables users to easily define and optimize the hemming operation. In combination with AutoForm-Solverplus, this software offers immediate benefits, such as: efficient planning of hemming processes to meet quality and cost requirements, effective implementation for early feasibility and final validation studies, rapid identification of typical hemming defects, prediction of full assembly springback after hemming as well as easy data exchange internally between different departments and externally between OEMs and suppliers. In addition, this software allows for compensation of inner and outer parts as well as any adjustments of the hemming equipment.

AutoForm-HemPlannerplus supports roll, conventional die and table top hemming. Depending on the product development process phase, the software supports two use cases, namely quick and advanced hemming. Quick hemming is used in the early stages of product development and production planning when the die layout of the drawing and forming operations is still not available. Advanced hemming is used in process engineering when the detailed definition of the forming operations is already available.

Dr. Markus Thomma, Corporate Marketing Director of AutoForm Engineering, stated: “In combination with our powerful solver algorithms, AutoForm-HemPlannerplus ensures the efficient planning of hemming processes. Users will benefit greatly from a fully integrated hemming solution provided by AutoFormplus R6. The new level of speed which can be achieved is a particular highlight of the software. Depending on the selected hemming process and geometry, a hood can now be simulated in just two to six hours, which represents a significant additional benefit for users working in this field.”

For more information about AutoForm and its products, visit http://www.autoform.com/.