Metal Laminated Tooling - A Quick and Flexible Tooling Concept
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2004
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Himmer, Thomas
Techel, Anja
Nowotny, Steffen
Beyer, Eckhard
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For the fast manufacturing of complex formed tools Fraunhofer IWS works together with partners from the industry on a constant automation solution for cutting, packaging and adding steel sheet cutouts. With the selection of the most suitable connecting technology, also requirements must be considered to quality, surface quality and the production costs. Deep drawing or stamping tools do not require a complete connection of the single metal sheets. Here, a fast and economical connection is the main objective. Due to simple automation, laser beam welding offers itself as joining process. On the other hand, a temperature-steady connection of the sheet metal lamellas is necessary for injection molds, which can resist the injection pressures.