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5 Hydr<strong>of</strong>orming<br />

5.3 Component development<br />

5.3.1 User-oriented project management<br />

In practical industrial application, it is increasingly important to <strong>design</strong><br />

a component not only for functionality but also for producibility.<br />

“Simultaneous engineering” and “early involvement” have become<br />

important watchwords in the field <strong>of</strong> product <strong>design</strong>, with customer<br />

and process developer cooperating from an early stage in determining<br />

component configuration. Only in this way is it possible to optimize<br />

functional and process engineering related factors within a short timeframe.<br />

A component development activity can be, for example, carried<br />

out as follows:<br />

1. preliminary meeting (customer and developer)<br />

2. technical and economic feasibility study (customer and developer)<br />

3. component configuration suitable for hydr<strong>of</strong>orming (customer and<br />

developer) and definition <strong>of</strong> a production sequence<br />

4. prototype development: CAD surface data generation (customer) and<br />

CNC milling data generation (developer), manufacture <strong>of</strong> a forming<br />

die and production <strong>of</strong> prototypes using different materials and wall<br />

thicknesses (developer)<br />

5. try-out <strong>of</strong> prototypes (customer)<br />

6. definition <strong>of</strong> quality-relevant (QA) data (customer)<br />

7. series production (customer or supplier)<br />

Metal Forming Handbook / Schuler (c) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

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