Tool path strategies for a new Agile incremental bending system
Enrico Simonetto, Andrea Ghiotti, Enrico Savio, Stefania Bruschi
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Abstract. In the last years, driven by the advent of industry 4.0 and more recently by the Covid19 pandemic, the paradigm of Agile manufacturing has become an important issue. To address these needs, manufacturing companies are looking for new processes to reduce production rap-ups times and costs related to traditional bending and stamping technologies. This paper proposes a new system, to produce bent elongated profiles of different thickness and shape by incremental forming. The novel machine uses two opposite rollers, to locally deform a workpiece by repeatedly moving back and forth along the profile to be bent. However, to fully exploit the new system potentialities ensuring the quality of the final products, the correct design of the tools paths are of utmost importance. An analysis of different tool path strategies to bend profiles up to 90° is presented. Finally, the proposed paths were validated on AISI304 sheets of 1 and 3 mm thickness.
Keywords
Sheet Forming, Incremental Sheet Forming, Tool Path
Published online 9/5/2023, 7 pages
Copyright © 2023 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: Enrico Simonetto, Andrea Ghiotti, Enrico Savio, Stefania Bruschi, Tool path strategies for a new Agile incremental bending system, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 35, pp 437-443, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902714-52
The article was published as article 52 of the book Italian Manufacturing Association Conference
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