My press runs at 42 strokes per minute will your simulation take that into account?

It was bound to come up sooner or later, and I even surprised myself by optimistically leaving of my list of rants and potential future blogs. But really can commercial simulation really predict the effect of press speed variation on the forming of parts? yes and no (or more appropo no, but kind of) Funny [...]

What is Compensation?

Springback compensation is one of the hottest topics out there in the stamping field. Whether we are looking at Simulation solutions, Scanning and reverse engineering solutions, or plain old fashioned dieology. In all these cases compensation is a geomtry adjustment applied to the tool to accomodate the elastic deformation that prevents attainment of the desired [...]

Simulation Accuracy (What? Again?)

It seems that maybe i can’t write enough on the topic of simulation accuracy; and maybe that is true. Or maybe I am dusting off the cobwebs around my critical thinking portion of my brain. So, I do need to revisit the topic. Just in case I have not thoroughly offended any body’s sensibilities. To [...]

Comprehensive evaluation of design

Computer Aided Engineering and Finite Element Analysis maturation as accepted technology has brought with it some undesirable baggage–the conclusion that just because something is feasible that we should proceed. It is a fact that a passing result from an analysis does, in fact, prove that a design is feasible; and therefore perhaps worthy of fulfillment. [...]

What separates what is FEASIBLE from MANUFACTURABLE? (is that a word?)

IN the last post discussed the idea that (SE) simultaneous engineering-while an idea that many have embraced idealistically-is not in practical application in most manufacturing circles. Now, before I have people burning effigies of me in the street and decrying me as a heretic let’s us consider the concept of feasibility versus manufacturability…. in many [...]

Automation in software

stuck on a couple of fundamental issues in regards to the level of Automation in software applications (we are an engineering software house). When using a software application that attempts to propose, predict, develop automatically, how do most of us prefer to have the results presented to us? For example: if the software attempts to [...]