Approach for an automatic optimisation of production chain as a tool for intelligent manufacturing in metal forming

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Approach for an automatic optimisation of production chain as a tool for intelligent manufacturing in metal forming

Adam Legwand, Konrad Perzyński, Łukasz Madej, Maciej Pietrzyk

AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7494/cmms.2014.1.0476

Abstract:

The objective of the paper is development of an automatic system for optimisation of production chains in metalforming. Product properties and their uniform distribution are usually the key parameters for formulation of the objective function in the optimization problem. Such parameters as strain/stress or final grain size distribution significantly influence material behaviour under exploitation conditions, therefore, theoretical prediction of those variables is inevitable for the optimization of the manufacturing chain. Thus, the main focus in the paper is on description of the developed complex tool capable of realization of automatic optimisation for subsequent manufacturing stages. Description of particular components responsible for automatic geometrical model generation, incorporation into the finite element (FE) software, optimisation operations and finally data transfer between subsequent modules are described in detail. A rod rolling operations of elliptical profiles were selected as case studies to demonstrate system capabilities.

Cite as:

Legwand, A., Perzyński, K., Madej, Ł., & Pietrzyk, M. (2014). Approach for an automatic optimisation of production chain as a tool for intelligent manufacturing in metal forming. Computer Methods in Materials Science, 14(1), 64 – 74. https://doi.org/10.7494/cmms.2014.1.0476

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Keywords:

Optimization, Modelling, Finite element method

Publication dates:

Received: 19.08.2013, accepted: 28.12.2013, published:

Publication type:

Original scientific paper

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