Main research areas
The focus of the research activities of the Professorship Virtual Production Engineering is on the one hand on the further development of production processes in the field of forming technology. This includes the design and simulation of forming processes for component development and process optimization.
On the other hand, integrated product and process modeling for the planning and control of process chains in development and manufacturing is another research area. This includes the representation of product manufacturing process chains as business process models as well as the consideration of data handling over the entire product lifecycle.
Experimental investigations and development of methods in the field of incremental forming processes
- Spinning
- Flow forming
- Flexible forming methods
- Process combinations
Numerical FEM process analysis and process optimization of various metal forming processes
- Flat-Clinching
- Rolling processes, planetary cross-rolling
- Extrusion
- Deep drawing, stretch forming
- Cutting processes
- Cold bulk metal forming
- Tension-, compression-, bending-, shear-tests
Support of the process chain through modeling and simulation of the forming processes
- Elementary methods (e.g. FMM))
- Finite element method (FEM)
Product modeling and usage of the product data technology
- Implementation of STEP in practice
- Further STEP development
- Integration of process chains
- Usage of PDM systems
Development and modeling of metal forming process chains
- Practical implementation
- Development of reference models
- Support of the entire process chain of product development
- Workflow management
