What is the stamping process?
In our daily life, there are many precision hardware products are obtained through the stamping process, so what is the stamping process?
Stamping is a forming processing method that relies on presses and dies to apply external force to plates, strips, pipes, and profiles, etc., to produce plastic deformation or separation, so as to obtain a workpiece (stamping part) of the desired shape and size.
Among them, the design and manufacturing process of the mold is directly related to the quality, production efficiency and production cost of stamping parts. In other words, the design level and manufacturing technology level of the mold are also a comprehensive measure of the technical ability of an enterprise, which plays a decisive role in the development process of new products.
The current state of the mold design industry
For mold design, 3D design has become an indispensable part, shortening the mold research and development cycle, and greatly improving the company's research and development capabilities. However, there are still many problems in the mold design of some enterprises, and there is a large room for improvement.
Low degree of standardization.
It relied entirely on the experience of the engineer, but the design was fragmented and lacked overall planning.
Data management is chaotic.
The data is stored on their own private computers, and version management is chaotic, often using the wrong version design or production.
Low reuse efficiency.
There are many similar molds, but each person's design process is different, and it is difficult to borrow and modify, so I would rather redraw.
Low degree of automation.
Since 2D is the main and 3D is supplemented, 3D and 2D are not related, resulting in a lot of repetitive work, and the drawing annotation workload is large.
ICT's BOM solution greatly improves the efficiency of mold design!
In response to these problems, we use a precision metal stamping customer's mold design case to introduce a new design model, so that engineers can focus more on thinking about the mold itself, rather than spending a lot of time on software operation.
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Establish a standardized R&D system to improve reuse efficiency
Unified specification of part drawing number, engineers can know which project the part belongs to, which type, whether it is a standard or general part, whether it is a sheet or bar stock, which is convenient for project reuse;
Standardize the SOLIDWORKS material library, store the information of all standard materials, such as material name, material unit price, material density, etc., and develop the automatic material association function, automatically select the corresponding material according to the drawing number, and bring out the corresponding unit price and density;
Build a unified standard parts library, guide and limit the use and growth of standard parts, and effectively control the specification and quantity of standard parts.
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Standardize R&D data management to ensure that the version is accurate, up-to-date and effective
Based on different types of products and customers, build a product library, such as fire-fighting parts, aviation dining trucks, etc., all engineering personnel can quickly find the products they are responsible for to carry out their work, and at the same time, ensure that the engineering data is unique.
1. Accurate and effective;
Each product is managed in stages according to the development process, so that engineers can clearly see the output of each stage, and all outputs can know the current work status, such as working or released, and the progress of the entire product can be displayed more intuitively.
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Customized development tools, batch and automatic completion of 2D design, BOM output
Further analysis of the customer's BOM output found that there are the following problems in BOM production:
The name is not standard and needs to be entered manually;
The sorting is irregular and needs to be adjusted manually;
All semi-finished materials are manually calculated and filled;
The raw materials need to be manually checked and filled in manually.
By combining standardization and secondary development, we will automate all these tasks for customers, automatically sorting by name, automatically calculating volume by model size, and automatically matching blanks by volume and material.
This helps engineers reduce repetitive, low-value manual work, and similarly, tooling costs can be automatically calculated by the program.
For the problem of long time for 2D drawing and annotation in mold design, we have developed an intelligent annotation tool based on SOLIDWORKS to automatically output engineering drawings and basic dimensions according to templates
As a result, the customer's design department took an average of 18 days to design a two-set mold set, which was reduced to 12 days, an increase of 30% efficiency. 