Body Manufacturing Stamping

Automotive stamping dies and press lines are high-cost, long lead-time investments. To maximize return on investment (ROI), it’s important to streamline development and commissioning of new lines, while flexibly adapting existing lines to new designs. Our automotive stamping solutions are used by leading companies to optimize operational efficiency and reduce time, cost and errors in design, planning and production of sheet metal parts and dies. Performance improvement include: reduction of try-out time by 70 percent, reduction of tooling design costs by 20 percent, reduction of stamping die design errors by 90 percent, and increase of stroke rate by 10 percent.

Automotive stamping dies and press lines are high-cost, long lead-time investments. To maximize return on investment (ROI), it’s important to streamline development and commissioning of new lines, while flexibly adapting existing lines to new designs. Our automotive stamping solutions are used by leading companies to optimize operational efficiency and reduce time, cost and errors in design, planning and production of sheet metal parts and dies. Performance improvement include: reduction of try-out time by 70 percent, reduction of tooling design costs by 20 percent, reduction of stamping die design errors by 90 percent, and increase of stroke rate by 10 percent.

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For manufacturing process management, solution enables your product development and manufacturing operations to collaborate and become more efficient. The solution is your single source of manufacturing knowledge, advanced BOM/BOP management, production and shop floor management and manufacturing resource visibility.

Our part design solution helps you generate and edit automotive body panel parts to meet the vehicle’s appearance, safety, weight and performance requirements. This allows you easily work with data from any CAD system, quickly model accurate automotive sheet metal parts, easily update models to design changes and document designs for proper manufacturing.

With our die planning solution you can ensure planned production targets are achieved by defining the die lineup and optimizing the press line’s efficiency. You can also ensure die assemblies perform properly and deliver intended results via virtual try-out and simulation.

With the advanced programming capabilities for die face machining, you can reduce machining time, eliminate errors and improve part quality with optimized machining operations. With our solution you can meet start-of-production deadlines, as well as throughput targets of dies by rapidly correcting the die face based on try-out results and validating kinematics by simulating actual press line operating conditions. Additionally, you are able to verify a properly functioning production environment by simulating the setup and die change procedures, and executing a complete virtual production run for commissioning and part production.

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Additive Manufacturing

Create revolutionary products using our integrated additive manufacturing software. Design, simulate, prepare, print, and validate prototype or production parts on a wide range of 3D printing equipment.

Bill of Materials Management

By providing a common source of BOM information across your organization that is flexible and scalable, you can meet and exceed the market demand for more innovative and varied product offerings.

Closed-loop Part Quality Control

Digitalize your quality control process by connecting CMM inspection programming, execution, and measured data analysis to meet demanding requirements for product quality.

CNC Machining

Efficiently program any job – from production machining and mold manufacturing to 5-axis milling and automated robotic operations – using one computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software.

Composite Manufacturing

Address the complex and specialized composite manufacturing processes through an intelligent design-to-manufacturing composite solution that is fully integrated into commercial 3D CAD systems.

Design Validation

Ensure proper mold cooling through thermomechanical simulation of manufacturing process. Optimize the design of molds for manufacturing of composites through simulation of curing and complete mold process performance.

Die Design Validation

Design, simulate and optimize jigs and tooling fixtures through structural analysis, vibration analysis and topology optimization. Reach targets like minimum stiffness, optimal weight or avoiding unwanted vibration.

Manufacturing Process & Data Management

Connect people, systems and machines through manufacturing process planning using a digital thread to accumulate knowledge and continuously improve operations.

Manufacturing Quality Planning

Integrate quality parameters during product design, manufacturing planning and production to eliminate costly product quality issues.