Objective The project consists in developing a system that assists in the definition of manufacturing sequences for forming, and tooling of parts by cold working of steel wire, leading to production rates ten times greater than with machining. The objective of concerned SMEs is to increase the throughput of their engineering shops, reducing by half the billet turnaround time between the beginning of the study of a part and start up of serial production; to improve the accuracy and the reliability of cost estimates; to obtain higher quality; and to benefit from feedback to the engineering shop of production experience. The principal R & D tasks will consist in: modelling of parts and of the steps in the forming processes, automatic selection of parts similar to the new part under study, using fuzzy filtering methods with a database, constituting expert modules transcribing the know how of the concerned SMEs regarding different types of forming, as an aid in validating the final production process. The project will lead to integration with the techniques of the different engineering shops, in association with CAD/CAM tools already used by operators. The expected consequences are: a significant increase in the competitiveness of the concerned SMEs thanks to reductions in cost and in engineering time, the ability to produce small series under competitive conditions and, thus, better resist imports of "simple" parts, especially from developing countries, an improved aptitude to manufacture complex parts, traditionally equirings of cold working: high hourly production rates and manufacturing without material loss, the upholding of a technological edge over countries having low labor costs. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesengineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringsubtractive manufacturingengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineering Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0202 - New methodologies for product design and manufacture Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Rivex SA EU contribution No data Address 71-73 avenue de Saint-Mandé 75012 Paris France See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Brugola SA Italy EU contribution No data Address Piazza Giovanni XXIII 36 20035 Lissone Milano See on map Total cost No data Compagnie de Produits Metallurgique SA France EU contribution No data Address Zone Industrielle de Geoffroy 63307 Thiers See on map Total cost No data SE 2 E - PROSYST France EU contribution No data Address 19,rue Marcel Dassault, 2 59113 SECLIN See on map Total cost No data Simmonds SA France EU contribution No data Address 30,Rue Notre-Dame des Victoires 75002 Paris See on map Total cost No data Tornilleria del Besos SA Spain EU contribution No data Address 52,C/Ciudad de Asuncion 08030 Barcelona See on map Total cost No data Université de Liège Belgium EU contribution No data Address 21-C3,Rue E. Solvay 4000 Liège See on map Total cost No data
