28th ISATA Conf. CAll f. papers

From: Hans Mueller (University of Bremen)
To: RP-ML
Date: Friday, March 31, 1995
Subject: 28th ISATA Conf. CAll f. papers
This is an other information concerning  the 28th ISATA (International 
Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation), September 18 - 22, 
1995; Stuttgart,Germany.

As you may already know there will be a "Dedicated Conference on Rapid
Prototyping" with a number of different sessions.  We at BIBA believe 
that sheet metal forming is of great economic importance. Therefor we are 
organizing a session entitled "Rapid Prototyping for Sheet Metal 
Forming".

Topic
A considerable amount of sheet metal parts are used in each car. If these 
parts can be made more easily and much earlier in the design process, 
then product lead times and costs can be significantly reduced and final 
quality improved. For a rapid and more economic sheet metal tool 
production, the whole production cycle for freeform dies has to be 
re-engineered, taking even unconventional concepts into account.
Automated Incremental Production:
One possibility is an automated incremental tool production by 
CNC-machined
sheet metal, milled slices, slabs or blocks.
Reconfigurable Forming Tools:
A tool can be formed by a field of vertical "beams" - like a "nailboard" 
or a raster of pillars with different heights. The number of the 
producible shapes is unlimited, whereas the reconfigurable tool can be 
re-used for many different parts.
Closed Information Loop:
For die design and quality assurance, the whole system of CAD model, FEA
simulation, forming tool and 3D measurement device should form an 
integrated
circle. A special weight is posed upon user-friendly solutions with 
shopfloor capability.

Besides this, all contributions regarding fast and economic forming tool 
design & production are welcome:

Tooling Materials
Forming Simulation
Quality Control.

This call invites you to send a contribution and to participate in the 
conference. You can do this by providing a paper title and a short 
abstract of about 100 words due on April 7, 1995. The draft manuscript of 
about 300 words must be available by April 28, and the final version of 
the paper by June 16. Please send your reply to my address and a copy to 
the ISATA Secretariat (42 Lloyd Park Avenue, Croydon, CRO 5SB, England; 
Phone: +44-181-681 3069, Fax: +44-181-686 1490).

Yours Sincerely,

Hans Mueller

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Dipl. Ing. Hans Mueller
Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science (BIBA)
P.O.Box 33 05 60,  28 335  Bremen, Germany
Email:  	mue@biba.uni-bremen.de
Phone:  	+49-421-218-5542 (direct line) or  +49-421-218-02 (secretary)
Fax:    	+49-421-218-5510