scholarly journals Smart Process Combination for Aluminum/Plastic Hybrid Components

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Albert ◽  
Wolfgang Zorn ◽  
Markus Layer ◽  
Welf-Guntram Drossel ◽  
Dirk Landgrebe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Production Engineering ◽  
Lightweight Construction ◽  
Lightweight Structures ◽  
Car Body ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The One ◽  
Integrated Or ◽  
Process Combination

The research on lightweight construction increasingly gains in importance, especially for the automotive industry. New lightweight components ensure the necessary stability of car body parts on the one hand. On the other hand they are supposed to allow a low priced production. Hence, aluminum or magnesium alloys have quite a large share in production engineering. During the last years, research mainly addressed metal/plastic compounds. Weight reduction as well as the capability of producing complex structures are only some of the benefits of this technology. Furthermore, additional functionality can be integrated or functional tasks can be distributed: The metal ensures stiffness and realizes the technical connection to the car body by means of welding, while the plastic enables the insertion of special elements for the joining or assembly process. This paper presents two approaches of realizing a combined process to produce aluminum/plastic-hybrid structures. In a first approach, an active tool is presented to realize the sheet based process. The second approach focusses on the tube-based process and presents the topical state of research within the Federal Cluster of Excellence EXC 1075 “Merge Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures”.

Integration of Electromagnetic Calibration into the Deep Drawing Process of an Industrial Demonstrator Part

2007 ◽  
Vol 344 ◽  
pp. 435-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Psyk ◽  
C. Beerwald ◽  
A. Henselek ◽  
Werner Homberg ◽  
Alexander Brosius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Deep Drawing ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Drawing Process ◽  
Lightweight Construction ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Deep Drawing Process ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Process Combination ◽  
Calibration Step

In recent years a steadily growing interest in applying lightweight construction concepts could be observed. This development is accompanied by an increasing demand for innovative forming strategies suitable for extending the forming limits of the typical lightweight materials. Deep drawing combined with an integrated electromagnetic calibration step is an example of such a technology. The feasibility and potential of this process combination is analyzed on the basis of a demonstrator part from the automotive industry. Thereby, aspects related to the practicability of the electromagnetic forming process itself are regarded as well as points related to the deep drawn preform. The concept of a 3D-coil insert, integrated into a deep drawing punch in order to realize the calibration in the deep drawing process, is introduced and based on the experimental results, conclusions regarding the applicability of the process combination are drawn.

scholarly journals APPLICABILITY VERIFICATION OF AUTOFORM SOFTWARE FOR FEM SIMULATION OF MECHANICAL FIXATION OF HEMMED JOINTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 554-559
Author(s):  
Lukáš Chrášťanský ◽  
Jan Šanovec ◽  
Yatna Yuwana Martawirya ◽  
Michal Valeš
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Dimensional Stability ◽  
Fem Simulation ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Mechanical Method ◽  
Car Body ◽  
Law Of Similarity ◽  
The Law ◽  
Small Parts

This paper deals with the problematics of fixation of hemmed joints, especially with one specific mechanical method how to ensure a dimensional stability of a hemmed joint of car-body parts, such as doors, bonnet and trunk lid, during the production process in the automotive industry. It also evaluates simulations and verify the possibility of the use of the Autoform software for this problematics. In the paper, the possibility of using the law of similarity in the analysis of the compressibility of small parts by Autoform is described.

scholarly journals A Proposed Method to Preserve Knowledge and Information by Use of Knowledge Enabled Engineering

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Sandberg ◽  
Mats Na¨sstro¨m
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
New Method ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Car Body ◽  
Car Model ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Body In White ◽  
Use Of Knowledge ◽  
Information Today

Today’s automotive industry produces more new car models in a shorter time than ever before. Every car model comes in many different versions regarding number of doors, engine, transmission etc while being built on a platform strategy. This leads to a lot of different knowledge and information that needs to be tracked for the different components in addition to other information e.g. what function does design features have, why is this radius not smaller etc. Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) is in need of an effective method to save and present all this knowledge and information today. This paper describes a new method, to gather and save knowledge and information about car body parts also called body-in white, which was implemented in a demonstrator and tested and evaluated on VCC.

scholarly journals Monitoring the technological processes in the wood industry in order to make them more efficient through technical overhauling

2019 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Radu Dan Paltan ◽  
Cristina Biriş ◽  
Loredana Anne-Marie Rădulescu
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Operating Mode ◽  
Solid Wood ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Wood Industry ◽  
Research Article ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Cost

Of many techniques that are used to optimize production and costs, the studies conducted within a profile company lead to our choice for testing the 6Sigma method (the most used method in the automotive industry) in view of the economic efficiency applied in the wood Industry company. This method measures how many flaws exist in a process and determines in a systematic way how to improve it by technical overhauling and eliminating or minimizing the process for efficiency. This research article aims to study the state of research on the optimization of the production process through technical overhauling for panels reconstituted from solid wood and ways to make production more efficient by cutting costs through technical overhauling. From preliminary research, we estimate that all the items founded and others that will result from further research will result in a significant decrease in production costs that are reflected in the cost of the finished product and consequently in increasing the yield of the company by maximizing its profit. At the same time it may be the basis of future research studies in the field. The easier it is to maximize profits, the lower the operating costs are and the higher recovery rate of investments are, that will result a change in the operating mode: “working smarter not harder”.

Vorrichtungsfreies Fügen*/Fixtureless joining in car body assembly

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (10) ◽  
pp. 703-707
Author(s):  
D. Kupzik ◽  
S. Coutandin ◽  
J. Fleischer
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Flexible Body ◽  
Body Shop ◽  
Car Body ◽  
New Models ◽  
Device Free

Die steigende Variantenvielfalt im Automobilbau durch neue Modelle und elektrische Derivate motiviert ein Umdenken im Karosserierohbau. In „SmartBodySynergy“ (SBS) wird ein flexibler Karosserierohbau in Werkstattfertigung entwickelt. Für dessen Umsetzung sind flexible Fügezellen notwendig. In diesem Artikel wird der Einsatz einer vorrichtungsfreien, kamerageregelten Bauteilpositionierung für den Einsatz in varianten- sowie vorgangsflexiblen Fügezellen untersucht und eine Demonstratorzelle vorgestellt.   The increasing diversity of variants in the automotive industry through new models and electrical derivatives motivates a rethinking of body shop construction. In „SmartBodySynergy“ (SBS), a flexible body shop is being developed in workshop production. For its implementation, flexible joining cells are necessary. This article examines the use of device-free, camera-controlled component positioning for use in variant- and process-flexible joining cells and introduces a demonstrator cell.

Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwan Tze-wan
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Constitutive Principle ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractIn the Shuowen, one of the earliest comprehensive character dictionaries of ancient China, when discussing where the Chinese characters derive their structural components, Xu Shen proposed the dual constitutive principle of “adopting proximally from the human body, and distally from things around.” This dual emphasis of “body” and “things around” corresponds largely to the phenomenological issues of body or corporeality on the one hand, and lifeworld on the other. If we borrow Heidegger’s definition of Dasein as Being-in-the world, we can easily arrive at a reformulation of Xu Shen’s constitutive principle of the Chinese script as one that concerns “bodily Dasein.” By looking into various examples of script tokens we can further elaborate on how the Chinese make use not only of the body in general but various body parts, and how they differentiate their life world into material nature, living things, and a multifaceted world of equipment in forming a core basis of Chinese characters/components, upon which further symbolic manipulation such as “indication”, “phonetic borrowing”, semantic combination, and “annotative derivation”, etc. can be based. Finally, examples will be cited to show how in the Chinese scripts the human body (and its parts) might interact with other’s bodies (and their parts) or with “things around” (whether nature, living creatures, or artifacts) in various ways to cover the social, environmental, ritual, technical, economical, and even intellectual aspects of human experience. Bodily Dasein, so to speak, provides us with a new perspective of understanding and appreciating the entire scope of the Chinese script.

Stamping Plant 4.0 – Basics for the Application of Data Mining Methods in Manufacturing Car Body Parts

2015 ◽  
Vol 639 ◽  
pp. 21-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Purr ◽  
Josef Meinhardt ◽  
Arnulf Lipp ◽  
Axel Werner ◽  
Martin Ostermair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Process Conditions ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Car Body ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Mining Methods

Data-driven quality evaluation in the stamping process of car body parts is quite promising because dependencies in the process have not yet been sufficiently researched. However, the application of data mining methods for the process in stamping plants would require a large number of sample data sets. Today, acquiring these data represents a major challenge, because the necessary data are inadequately measured, recorded or stored. Thus, the preconditions for the sample data acquisition must first be created before being able to investigate any correlations. In addition, the process conditions change over time due to wear mechanisms. Therefore, the results do not remain valid and a constant data acquisition is required. In this publication, the current situation in stamping plants regarding the process robustness will be first discussed and the need for data-driven methods will be shown. Subsequently, the state of technology regarding the possibility of collecting the sample data sets for quality analysis in producing car body parts will be researched. At the end of this work, an overview will be provided concerning how this data collection was implemented at BMW as well as what kind of potential can be expected.

Development of the Control Strategy for an Innovative 4WD Device

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Cheli ◽  
Paolo Dellacha` ◽  
Andrea Zorzutti
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Controller Design ◽  
Rear Wheel ◽  
Front Axle ◽  
Torque Distribution ◽  
Actuation System ◽  
Wheel Drive ◽  
Wet Clutch ◽  
The One ◽  
Engine Crankshaft

The potentialities shown by controlled differentials are making the automotive industry to explore this field. While VDC systems can only guarantee a safe behaviour at limit, a controlled differential can also increase the handling performance. The system derives from a rear wheel drive architecture with a semi-active differential, to which has been added a controlled wet clutch that directly connects the front axle and the engine crankshaft. This device allows distributing the drive torque between the two axles, according to the constraints due to kinematics and thermal problems. It can be easily understood that in this device the torque distribution doesn’t depend only from the central clutch action, but also from the engaged gear. Because of that the central clutch controller has to consider the gear position too. The control algorithms development was carried on using a vehicle model which can precisely simulate the handling response, the powertrain dynamic and the actuation system behaviour. A right powertrain response required the development of a customize library in Simulink. The approach chosen to carry on this research was the one used in automotive industry nowadays: an intensive simulation campaign was executed to realize an initial controller design and tuning.

scholarly journals Numerical Prediction of Forming Car Body Parts with Emphasis on Springback

Metals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mulidrán ◽  
Marek Šiser ◽  
Ján Slota ◽  
Emil Spišák ◽  
Tomáš Sleziak
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Prediction ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Car Body

scholarly journals Computer aided design of sequencing problem – the concept of Paint Shop 4.0

Mechanik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (7) ◽  
pp. 529-531
Author(s):  
Jolanta Krystek ◽  
Sara Alszer ◽  
Szymon Bysko
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Paint Shop ◽  
Actual Structure ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Digital Factory ◽  
Sequencing Problem ◽  
Car Body ◽  
Aided Design

Presented is the concept of paint shop operation for the automotive industry – Paint Shop 4.0, based on the ideas of Industry 4.0 and Digital Factory. A new approach to the issue of car body sequencing, taking into account the actual structure of the paint shop department with buffers, has been presented. In the created application, proprietary car body sequencing algorithms were implemented.

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