Hydraulic Die Forming Discussion Group
Re^2: Very interesting concept for forming metal

Jesse Brennan
jkbrennan@worldnet.att.net


>%The process is really of tremendous potential use in an industry like aircraft construction . Here every project is a short run  or multiple units spread out over a faily long time ( a short run or one off at  any given time). This was a little different during WW2.   A completely programable flexible  set where you can press one part and a few minutes later make a totaly different  part without any manual setup changes is  of fantastic value today. Savings in work in process inventory can  justify a very expensive machine.

The concept has really huge problems in scaling down the size.
The value is in the cad-cam computer changed set up.
You can make limited use relatively low force dies with simple conventional  proceedures or cad- cam milling much easier and cheaper  -- set ups on a changeable system  at small scale would be an insanity producing process.
Jesse
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