1 Introduction: Production Technologies and Product Development
1.1 The Interaction between Product Development and Production Technologies
1.2 Incorporation of Production in Current Product Development Approaches
1.3 Market Pull vs. Technology Push
2 The CRC666 Approach: Realizing Optimized Solutions Based on Production Technological Innovation
2.1 Motivation for and Goals of a New Development Approach
2.2 Options in Manufacturing Technologies
2.3 Manufacturing-induced Properties
2.4 Mathematical Optimization of Product Geometries and Manufacturing Processes
2.5 Integrated Algorithm-based Product and Process Development
3 New Technologies: From Basic Ideas to Mature Technologies
3.1 Basics of Linear Flow Splitting and Bend Splitting
3.1.1 Process Principles
3.1.2 Technology
3.1.3 Process Characteristics
3.1.4 Process Qualification
3.2 Integrated Process Chains for Sheet Metal Structures
3.2.1 Roll Forming
3.2.2 Cutting Technologies
3.2.3 Welding
3.2.4 Deep Drawing
3.2.5 Process Control
3.3 Product Benefits Through Bifurcations
3.3.1 Bifurcation at the Edge of Sheet Metal
3.3.2 Bifurcation in the Plane of Sheet Metal
4 Manufacturing-induced Properties:
Determination, Understanding and Beneficial Use
4.1 Effects of Severe Straining in Integral Sheet Metal Design
4.1.1 Strength
4.1.2 Subsequent Formability
4.1.3 Durability
4.1.4 Rolling Contact Fatigue
4.2 Processing of Manufacturing-induced Properties for Product Development
4.2.1 Linking Manufacturing-induced Properties to Functional Product Properties
4.2.2 Preparation and Documentation of Process Integrated Design Guidelines
enefits - Some Examples
4.3.1 Mathematical Optimization of Stringer Sheets
4.3.2 Light Crane System
5 Finding the Best: Mathematical Optimization Based on Product and Process Requirements
5.1 Formalization of the Design Task
5.1.1 Modeling of Technical Systems by Properties
5.1.2 Requirement Acquisition and Transformation into Properties
5.1.3 Integration of Manufacturing Technologies
5.1.4 Formalized Integrated Product and Process Design Task
5.2 Optimization of Product Design
5.2.1 Geometry Optimization of Multi-chambered Profiles
5.2.2 Topology and Geometry Optimization: A Combined Approach
5.2.3 Geometry Optimization of Hydroformed Branched Sheet Metal Products
5.2.4 Shape Optimization of Mechanical Connections
5.3 Process Optimization
5.3.1 Optimal Control of Deep Drawing Processes
5.3.2 Partitioning
5.3.3 Production Sequence
5.4 Beneficial Effects of Formalization and Optimization
6 Computer Integrated Engineering and Design
6.1 Integrated Information Model
6.1.1 Core Model
6.1.2 Products and Production Processes
6.2 CAD Modeling for Bifurcated Sheet Metal Parts
6.2.1 Direct Modeling Approach
6.2.2 Algorithmic Modeling Approach
6.2.3 Panelization of Freeform Building Facades
6.3 Process Simulation
6.3.1 Linear Flow Splitting Simulation of the Macro Geometry
6.3.2 Simulation of Local Properties
6.4 Fatigue Strength Simulation
6.4.1 Linear Flow Split Structures
6.4.2 Deep Drawn Structures
7 New Challenges: Technology Integrated Market-Pull
7.1 New Processes
7.1.1 Integrated Bending
7.1.2 Flexible Flow Splitting
7.2 New Products of Sheet Metal Panels
7.2.1 Panelization of Free-form Architecture Using Flexible Modules
7.2.2 Joints with Flow Split Flanges
7.2.3 Multifunctional Building Modules
7.3 Implementation of our Approach on Aesthetical Demands
8 Finding New Opportunities: Technology Push Approach
8.1 Technology-pushed Product Innovation
8.1.1 From Manufacturing-induced Properties to Product Innovation
8.1.2 Linear Flow Split Linear Guides
8.2 Technology-pushed Process Innovation
8.2.1 Process Innovation Driven by Manufacturing-induced Properties
8.2.2 Mechanical Joining by Linear Flow Splitting
8.3 Concurrent Technology-pushed Product and Process Innovation
9 The Result: A New Design Paradigm
9.1 Integrated Algorithm-based Product and Process Development
9.1.1 The Integrated Approach
9.1.2 Impacts of the Integrated Approach
9.2 Case Studies
9.2.1 Facade Cleaning System
9.2.2 Integrated Fastenings for Hangers
9.2.3 Nonlinear Skywalk Beam
Professor Groche is currently the Director of Institute for Production Engineering and Forming Machine (PtU) at Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Hessian Cooperation reward. He has supervised over 200 Masters Theses and more than 35 Doctoral Theses. He has served as the conference chairman for numerous conferences, including the 6th International Conference on Tribology in Manufacturing Processes & Joining by Plastic Deformation, and is a member of various scientific societies, including the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).
Dr. Bruder is a Postdoctroal Research Associate at the Materials Science Department, Physical Metallurgy Division, Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany. He has served as a Visiting Lecturer at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany, and a Visiting Scientist at the Centre for Advanced Hybrid Materials, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Gramlich is a Postoctoral research associate at the Institute for Product Development and Machine Elements, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
The book gives a systematic and detailed description of a new integrated product and process development approach for sheet metal manufacturing. Special attention is given to manufacturing that unites multidisciplinary competences of product design, material science, and production engineering, as well as mathematical optimization and computer based information technology. The case study of integral sheet metal structures is used by the authors to introduce the results related to the recent manufacturing technologies of linear flow splitting, bend splitting, and corresponding integrated process chains for sheet metal structures.
• Highlights applicability and benefits of an integrated development process through the use of case studies in the field of sheet metal structures;
• Provides a perspective on an integrated development leading to products and processes;
• Includes a detailed description of procedures, methodologies, and tools to integrate manufacturing, process, and materials engineering into optimized product design.