This master’s project describes a proposal for manufacturing technology of a horizontal boring machine case. This case is manufactured by HESTEGO a.s. from a DC01 steel sheet, which is 2 mm thick and its production series is 200 pieces a year. Punching and bending were chosen as the most suitable methods from the considered manufacturing technologies. The theoretical part of the thesis includes a study of the chosen manufacturing technologies. Based on the analysis of the technological calculations and the available tools in the manufacturing company, a technological procedure was designed and these machines were chosen: punching machine TruPunch 5000 a servo-electronic press brake SAFAN E – BRAKE 100–3100. Technical and economical evaluation is also included in the proposal.

This thesis deals with the development of a new methodology for automatic generation of scanning positions based on a computer model of the part for digitization of sheet metal parts. Manufacture and related inspection of sheet metal parts are closely connected to automotive industry. Based on increasing general requirements on accuracy, there is also a requirement for accurate inspection of manufactured parts in serial-line production. Optical 3D scanners and industrial robots are used more often for that purpose. Measuring positions for accurate and fast digitization of a part need to be prepared as the manufacturing of the new part begins. Planning of such positions is done manually by positioning of the industrial robot and saving the positions. The planning of positions proposed by this methodology is done automatically. A methodology of positions planning, their simulation for true visibility of the part elements using reflectance model and a simulation of the positions for robot reachability is presented in this thesis. The entire methodology is implemented as a plug-in for the Rhinoceros software. High reduction of time in positions planning compared to the manual approach was observed in the performed experiments.

This master’s thesis deals with suggestion of production of sheet metal cover in Limid Mohelno s.r.o. Piece serves as cover of regulation device of rail vehicles with visual function and it’s manufactured from corrosion-resistant steel ČSN 17 240 with thickness 1 mm. Esthetical impression is ensured by grinded surface K240. The master’s thesis includes literary studies and problems of chosen technologies, technological calculations and choice of machines including tools. As the best manufacturing technology was chosen punching on TruPunch 1000 and bending on press brake SafanDarley E-Brake E-100. Technical and economical evaluation was made based on selected technology and compared with another manufacturing options.

The diploma thesis deals with the design of a new production hall for sheet metal processing in KOVOT Invest s.r.o. The content of the thesis is the analysis of the current state, the capacity calculations of individual technologies and warehouse management. Further design of the layout solution in the hall and economic evaluation of the investment.

Aus der Einleitung: "Um Kosten in der Produktentwicklung weiter zu minimieren und gleichzeitig die Qualität der zu fertigenden Produkte zu gewährleisten, nehmen virtuelle Methoden in der Produktentwicklung einen immer größeren Stellenwert ein (Stelzer & Eigner, 2009). An die Maßhaltigkeit von umgeformten Blechteilen werden ständig höhere Anforderungen gestellt. Die Ursachen für Maßabweichungen an gefertigten Blechteilen resultieren maßgeblich aus den Berechnungsmodellen, die das System Werkzeug-Blechteil-Umformmaschine bisher in der Virtuellen Produktentwicklung noch nicht vollständig und exakt abbilden können. Mehrere Zyklen händischer Änderungen an den Umformwerkzeugen sind heute noch die Regel. Dieser Prozess wird bei der Blechumformung als Einarbeitungsphase bezeichnet und wird von Spezialisten des Werkzeugbaus unter Nutzung von unscharfem Erfahrungswissen durchgeführt. Der Zyklus der manuellen Einarbeitungsphase im Bereich des Werkzeugbaus steht den wirtschaftlichen Forderungen zum schnelleren Serienanlauf und zur Kostensenkung entgegen. Hier kann die Verkürzung des Einarbeitungsprozesses dienlich sein."

Bisherige Bemühungen zur Reduzierung der Rückfederung von Blechbauteilen begrenzten sich hauptsächlich auf die Gestaltung der letzten Formgebungsstufe. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein innovativer Ansatz zur Erhöhung der Maßhaltigkeit durch die Modifikation der Vorziehstufe untersucht. Dabei wird auf Grundlage eines beispielhaften Industriebauteils ein Demonstrator mit einer offenen und einer geschlossenen Kontur entwickelt. Durch die Abbildung der Herstellungsmethode in der Simulation (FEM) lässt sich die Rückfederung beurteilen. Durch die Charakterisierung des Werkstoffverhaltens wird die Qualität der Simulation gesteigert, da die Materialkennwerte (Fließkurve & Grenzformänderungskurve) für die Simulation genauer spezifiziert werden können. Es erfolgt die Variation der Vorziehstufe hinsichtlich geometrischer (Radius & Grad der Vorziehstufe) und prozesstechnischer Parameter (Niederhalterkraft & Schließabstand), sodass nach der Auswertung der Rückfederungsergebnisse Gestaltunghinweise erarbeitet werden. Die Validierung der Simulationsergebnisse wird vorgenommen, indem die Bauteile real hergestellt werden. Dadurch ist es möglich, die Rückfederungen der Simulation und der realen Herstellungsmethode zu vergleichen und die Gestaltungshinweise zu bewerten. / Approaches to reduce springback of sheet metal parts are mainly focused on the last forming stage. This study deals with modifications made on the pre-drawing stage so that an increased dimensional accuracy results. A demonstrator with an open and a closed contour is developed based on an exemplary industrial part. The assessment of springback is conducted by incorporating the manufacturing method into simulation (FEM). To increase the quality of the simulation the characterization of materials is set and hence more information about material properties (flow curve and forming limit curve) is specified. Variations of geometric (radius & proportion of pre-drawing stage) and process parameters (blankholder force & closing distance) are made which purpose the development of design guidelines after evaluation. The simulation results are validated by producing real sheet metal parts. The design guidelines will be feasible/can be assessed if the comparison of the springback results converges between simulation and reality.

The car industry produces many of their car parts by using sheet metal forming, where one of the most time-consuming phases is the development and manufacturing of new forming tools. As of today, when a new tool is to be evaluated in terms of usability, a forming simulation is conducted to predict possible failures before manufacturing. The assumption is then that the tools are rigid, and the only deformable part is the sheet metal itself. This is however not the case, since the tools also deform during the forming process. A previous research, which is the basis of this thesis, included a model with only elastic tools and showed results of high accuracy in comparison to using a rigid setup. However, this simulation is not optimal to implement for a daily based usage, since it requires high computational power and has a long simulation time.  The aim and scope for this thesis is to evaluate how a sheet metal forming simulation with elastic tool consideration can be reduced in terms of computational cost, by using the software LS-DYNA. A small deviation of the forming result is acceptable and the aim is to run the simulation with a 50-75 % reduction of time on fewer cores than the approximate 14 hours and 800 CPUs that the simulation requires today. The first step was to alter the geometry of the tools and evaluate the impact on the deformations of the blank. The elastic solid parts that only has small deformations are deleted and replaced by rigid surfaces, making the model partly elastic. Later, different decomposition methods are studied to determine what kind that makes the simulation run faster. At last, a scaling analysis is conducted to determine the range of computational power that is to be used to run the simulations as efficient as possible, and what part of the simulation that is affecting the simulation time the most. The correlation of major strain deviation between a fully elastic model and a partly elastic model showed results of high accuracy, as well as comparison with production measurements of a formed blank. The computational time is reduced by over 90 % when using approximately 65 % of the initial computational power. If the simulations are run with even less number of cores, 10 % of the initial number of CPUs, the simulation time is reduced by over 70 %. The conclusion of this work is that it is possible to run a partly elastic sheet metal forming simulation much more efficient than using a fully elastic model, without reliability problems of the forming results. This by reducing the number of elements, evaluate the decomposition method and by conducting a scaling analysis to evaluate the efficiency of computational power. / Bilindustrin producerar många av sina bildelar genom att tillämpa plåtformning, där en av de mest tidskrävande faserna är utveckling och tillverkning av nya formningsverktyg. Idag, när ett nytt verktyg ska utvärderas med avseende på användbarhet, genomförs en formningssimulering för att förutsäga eventuella fel innan tillverkning. Antagandet är då att verktygen är stela och den enda deformerbara delen är själva plåten. Det är dock inte så, eftersom verktygen också deformeras under formningsprocessen. Tidigare forskning, som ligger till grund för detta examensarbete, inkluderade en modell med endast elastiska verktyg och visade resultat med hög noggrannhet i jämförelse med att använda stela verktyg. Simuleringen med elastiska verktyg är emellertid inte optimal att implementera för daglig användning, eftersom den kräver hög beräkningskraft och har en lång simuleringstid. Syftet och omfattningen av detta examensarbete är att utvärdera hur en plåtformningssimulering med elastiska verktyg kan minskas med avseende på beräkningskostnaden, genom att använda programvaran LS-DYNA. En liten avvikelse från formningsresultatet är acceptabelt, och målet är att köra simuleringen med en 50-75 % minskning av tiden på färre kärnor än ungefär 14 timmar och 800 processorer som simuleringen kräver idag. Det första steget är att ändra verktygets geometri och utvärdera inverkan på deformationerna av plåten. De elastiska solida verktygsdelarna som endast har små deformationer raderas och ersätts av stela ytor, vilket gör modellen delvis elastisk. Senare studeras olika dekompositionsmetoder för att avgöra vilka som gör simuleringen snabbare. Till sist utförs en skalningsanalys för att bestämma antalet processorer som ska användas för att köra simuleringen så effektivt som möjligt. Korrelationen av huvudtöjningarna mellan en helt elastisk modell och en delvis elastisk modell visade resultat av hög noggrannhet, såväl som jämförelse med produktionsmätningar av en format plåt. Beräkningstiden minskar med över 90 % när man använder ungefär 65 % av den ursprungliga beräkningskraften. Om simuleringarna körs med färre antal kärnor, cirka 10 % av ursprungligt antal CPUer, minskar simuleringstiden med 70 %.  Slutsatsen av detta arbete är att det är möjligt att köra en delvis elastisk plåtformningssimulering mycket effektivare än att använda en helt elastisk modell, utan att de resulterar i pålitlighetsproblem. Detta genom att minska antalet element, utvärdera dekompositionsmetoden och genom att genomföra en skalningsanalys för att utvärdera effektiviteten av beräkningskraften. / Reduced Lead Time through Advanced Die Structure Analysis - Swedish innovation agency Vinnova

Effizienz, Prozesssicherheit und Teilequalität in der Blechtafelbearbeitung erfordern die exakte Positionierung der Rohblechtafel zur Bearbeitungsmaschine. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die experimentelle Erprobung vibrationsbasierter Ausrichtkonzepte an einer eigens entwickelten Versuchsanlage. Die Versuchsergebnisse führen zur Identifikation einer Vorzugslösung sowie möglicher Stellgrößen des Ausrichtprozesses. / Efficiency, process reliability and part quality in sheet metal processing require the precise positioning of the raw sheet metal to the processing machine. This paper presents the experimental investigation of vibration-based alignment concepts in a dedicated test facility. The test results enable identification of a preferential solution as well as possible control parameters of the alignment process.

Engineering problems have characteristics such as a large number of variables, non-linear, computationally expensive, complex and black-box (i.e. unknown internal structure). These characteristics prompt difficulties for existing optimisation techniques. A consequence of this is that the required optimisation time rapidly increases beyond what is practical. There is a needfor dedicated techniques to exploit the power of mathematical optimisation tosolve engineering problems. The objective of this thesis is to investigate thisneed within the field of automation, specifically for control optimisation ofautomated systems.The thesis proposes an optimisation algorithm for optimising the controlof automated interacting production stations (i.e. independent stations thatinteract by for example material handling robots). The objective of the optimisation is to increase the production rate of such systems. The non-separable nature of these problems due to the interactions, makes them hard to optimise.The proposed algorithm is called the Constructive Cooperative CoevolutionAlgorithm (C3). The thesis presents the experimental evaluation of C3, bothon theoretical and real-world problems. For the theoretical problems, C3 istested on a set of standard benchmark functions. The performance, robustness and convergence speed of C3 is compared with the algorithms. This shows that C3 is a competitive optimisation algorithm for large-scale non-separable problems.C3 is also evaluated on real-world industrial problems, concerning thecontrol of interacting production stations, and compared with other optimisation algorithms on these problems. This shows that C3 is very well-suited for these problems. The importance of considering the energy consumption and equipment wear, next to the production rate, in the objective function is also investigated. This shows that it is crucial that these are considered to optimise the overall performance of interacting production stations.

The subject of this diploma thesis is a proposal of a warehouse hall and an operation hall in Sokolnice. A land of the investor is located on Kobylnická street. Designed building is devided into two buildings which are a warehouse hall and an administrative building. The warehouse hall is designed as three-ship and has one floor above the ground. This building is designed for feed storage and breeding needs. The administrative building has got two floors above the ground. There is an office space for administrative company activity, facilities for employees and a company store. The support system of both buildings is made of steel structure, which is clad with insulating sandwich panels. A ceiling construction in the administrative building is also designed of steel support elements and trapezoidal sheet metal which is covered with a concrete layer. A roof construction of both buildings is flat, single skin and drained by means of a vacuum pipe. A roof composition consists of trapezoidal sheet metal, vapor barriers, dropped thermal insulator and from coating waterproofing. Internal layout is designed from plasterboard partitions. Thermal insulation in the plinth area at the warehouse is solved by using ETICS system. Foundation structures are designed as monolithic. Diploma thesis, according to the assignment, contain the creating of project documentation for the construction.