Capability of the turret punch press process: Intelligence between design and manufacturing

Nowadays many large companies have outsourced their product design. In such cases, a design subcontractor designs the product on the basis of a list of requirements and the desired property profile. In these circumstances, the actual engineering designer does not know where the product will be manufactured, nor the equipment used in the manufacturing process. This study presents the information required to describe the machine and material resources needed for the development of an analysis method for global automated production in the turret punch press environment. The description of product and device resources and their interconnectedness is the starting point for a method comparison in the development of expenses, production planning and performance optimization. The main research question of this paper is: what are the central boundary conditions required in sheet metal production between machine and materials in the turret punch press environment, with regards to developing capability analysis for the process?