Manufacturing Simulation Consulting Services
Wilde has been involved in the simulation of manufacturing processes since 1997. Our current technical services team includes engineers with significant experience of simulating and optimising manufacturing processes – obtained from previous direct employment with manufacturing companies in the fields of plastic injection moulding, sheet metal forming and bulk metal forming.
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Our current services and capabilities cover many manufacturing processes for metal, plastic and glass materials such as:
- Hot and cold forging
- Extrusion
- Rolling
- Injection moulding
- Deep drawing, stretch forming, bending and pressing
- Shearing
- Spinning and ring rolling
- Machining – from chip formation to product distortion
- Tooling stress analysis
Previous consulting work has included
- Investigation of cold forming die failures
- Prediction of distortion of hot forged railway wheels during cooling
- Formability assessment of automotive deep drawn panels
- Optimisation of 3D shearing operations in the aerospace industry
- Determination of spring-back during dishing processes.
We can also use CFD methods to analyse Fluids-Based Manufacturing Processes such as casting, food mixing, glass processing and furnace design.
PROMOTE (Process Modelling for Tomorrow’s Engines) Aerospace Research
Wilde is currently a strategic partner in a multi-year aerospace research project called PROMOTE with Rolls-Royce, University of Birmingham and University of Nottingham, part funded by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). The objective of the project is to develop and capture fundamental process modelling expertise within Rolls-Royce and the University of Nottingham in gas turbine disc joining by inertia welding. DEFORM is being used as the FEA solver to model not only the inertia welding process itself but also the subsequent distortion, residual stress/strain state and material properties from the downstream multiple heat treatment and machining operations. In addition to supplying and supporting the other partners as the software distributor, Wilde is responsible for developing a user environment to link the various simulation stages of the overall manufacturing process together in a way that is accessible and efficient for practical use by non-specialist engineers.
More information on this research and the outcomes will appear here over time. The project has also been described in a Eureka article from February 2010. Please contact us to discuss how your company may be able to benefit from research too.
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