Programming for evaluating strip layout of progressive dies

Author

Lin, Alan C. ; Tuan, Ho Minh ; Sheu, Dean K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

234

Abstract

A progressive die is an effective tool for efficient and economical production of sheet metal parts in large quantities. Nowadays, progressive die designers still spend much of their time on choosing better layouts among feasible ones. This study employs Pro/Web.Link, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and JavaScript to develop an application which helps evaluate automatically strip layouts in Pro/Engineer software environment. This paper proposes solutions for calculating total evaluation score of the strip layout based on four factors: station number factor, moment balancing factor, strip stability factor and feed height factor.

Keywords

CAD; Java; hypermedia markup languages; production engineering computing; sheet metal processing; strips; JavaScript; economical production; feed height factor; hyper text markup language; moment balancing factor; pro-Web link; pro-engineer software environment; progressive die; sheet metal part; station number factor; strip layout evaluation; strip stability factor; Force; Layout; Metals; Shearing; Solid modeling; Solids; Strips; CAD; Manufacturing; Programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2011 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourn, QLD

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1538-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDIM.2011.6093334

Filename

6093334