Development of integrated and intelligent design and analysis system for forging processes

Abstract

An intelligent system for supporting the whole design procedure of metal forming processes has been developed by integrating the expert systems, the FEA programs and the CAD interface modules. The system is developed to reduce the time, effort and cost in order to establish the successful metal forming processes of planned products. In order to promote practical applications by engineers in medium-size enterprises who are not theoretically expertized in the FEA and the other related knowledge, various databases and intelligent user interface modules have been developed in PC environment.