Rechnergestützte Entwicklungsumgebung zur Konstruktion von Tailored-Forming-Bauteilen

This article describes an approach for designing knowledge based Computer Aided Design (CAD) models to represent the complete solution space of the Tailored Forming process chain by depicting the production stages of a component. The aim is to use this knowledge base to determine during the product development process whether the desired component can be manufactured with the available equipment, even if the design engineer does not have the necessary expert knowledge. In addition to the model structure, the implementation of the manufacturing restrictions and the dependencies between the different production stages are shown. The procedure is described using the newly developed tailored forming process chain as an example.