AutoForm Training Seminars

Deep Drawing Fundamentals

This course covers the fundamentals in sheet metal forming of steel, aluminum and high strength steel, using practical examples from the automotive industry. The main focus of this course is on deep drawing of vehicle body parts.

Content:

• Basics of formability
• Materials: steel, aluminum and high strength steel
  - material properties
  - formability
  - theoretical principles
• Forming methods
  - deep drawing
  - hydromechanical deep drawing
  - hydroforming
• Press and tool technology
• Deep drawing of automotive body parts
  - basic definitions
  - fundamentals
    (operations, parameters of influence, tool concepts)
  - failure/errors (wrinkles, cracks, surface defects)
  - analysis of part quality (grid analysis)

Audience

This three-day course is intended for designers of vehicle body parts and tool designers in the automotive industry, as well as for practitioners in the fields of prototyping, tool making and press shop planning, and for CAD engineers in the field of sheet metal forming.

Training seminars are held at AutoForm’s offices in the USA, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Japan and Korea. Upon request, the seminars can also be held at customer sites. Please contact your AutoForm team to schedule a session.