An optimum scattering angle calculator calculates an optimum scattering angle at which molten metal is most desirably scattered at a time of piercing processing of opening a pierced hole in a sheet metal to fabricate a first product, the molten metal being not adhered to an approach path and not adhered to a processing path for a second product positioned within a search region centered on a center of the pierced hole at the optimum scattering angle. A program creator creates a processing program by adding an auxiliary code to a code for fabricating the first product, the auxiliary code indicating that, at a time of the piercing processing on the first product, a position of a laser beam in an opening of a nozzle is displaced in an angle direction of the optimum scattering angle from a center of the opening, the laser beam being emitted from the opening.

An incremental sheet forming system and method are configured to form a structure through an incremental sheet forming process. The incremental sheet forming system and method include a forming control unit that compensates for spring back of a structure to be formed through the incremental sheet forming process.

A method of toolpath generation is provided whereby the tool may be any smooth convex axisymmetric shape. The tool includes a tool body extending between a shank and a head. The shank is configured to be mounted in a collet which may optionally rotate. In the case of a stylus tool, the head has an axisymmetric forming surface used to press metal. In the case of a routing tool, the head has cutting surfaces which are enveloped by a smooth convex axisymmetric surface and the tool is used for milling a part. In a least one embodiment the tool is a stylus tool which has a forming surface that has been generated from a portion of a clothoid curve.

A method for recognition and compensation of an offset measure between stamping coordinates of a stamping device and laser coordinates of a laser device in a combined stamping-laser machine for processing a plate-shaped workpiece, particularly a metal sheet, includes introducing a structure into the plate-shaped workpiece by respectively using the stamping device or the laser device. A measurement variable of the introduced structure is determined respectively by the laser device or the stamping device. The measurement variable is compared with an expected variable, and a deviation of the measurement variable from the expected variable corresponds to an offset measure. The offset measure is balanced with the coordinates of the laser device in the laser coordinate system or with the coordinates of the stamping device in the stamping coordinate system in order to compensate for the offset measure between the stamping coordinates and the laser coordinates.

Novel systems and methods for an incremental forming process to manufacture a product are disclosed herein. The system and method generally involves continuously modifying the toolpath in real-time based upon the forming force of the forming tool compared to a predicted springback error established offline from a series of simplified simulations. The system and method disclosed herein are effective to form products with complex geometries and minimizes the costs and time requirements associated with prior art techniques.

A sheet processing apparatus includes: at least one processing tool that takes a processable state and an unprocessable state; a setting unit that sets operation parameters on the processable state and the unprocessable state; and a control unit that controls an operation of the processing tool based on the set operation parameters, in which the setting unit sets the operation parameters such that: a processable state holding process in which the processing tool holds the processable state, is executed, when a certain portion-to-be-processed is formed in a certain pre-product and then a next portion-to-be-processed of the same type as the certain portion-to-be-processed is formed in a next pre-product; and/or a processing tool selection process in which the processing tool for forming the portion-to-be-processed is selected so that a moving distance of the processing tool is minimized, is executed.

A bending machine with a work area image capture apparatus has a machine frame, a longitudinally extended, fixed machine table, and a longitudinally extended press beam moved by a drive relative to the frame and guided therein. The longitudinal expanse and the press beam movement direction define a working plane establishing a front working and manipulation space and a rear machine space. An image capture apparatus above the machine table in the machine space has a capture region oriented toward the machine space and is connected with a display configured to represent the captured image of the capture region. The capture apparatus is connected with the display by an image processing processor having a coordinate transformation module configured the captured image perspective. The coordinate transformation module is connected with a wireless position determination system configured to determine the machine operator position in the working and manipulation space.

A material characteristic value prediction system that can predict material characteristic values with high accuracy is provided. Also provided is a method of manufacturing a metal sheet that can improve the product yield rate, by changing manufacturing conditions of subsequent processes. The material characteristic value prediction system (100) includes a material characteristic value predictor configured to acquire input data including line output factors in a metal sheet manufacturing line, disturbance factors, and component values of a metal sheet being manufactured, and predict material characteristic values of the manufactured metal sheet using a prediction model configured to take the input data as inputs, wherein the prediction model includes a machine learning model generated by machine learning and configured to take the input data as inputs and output production condition factors, and a metallurgical model configured to take the production condition factors as inputs and output the material characteristic values.

An assembling device for manufacturing a panel assembly, which includes at least two tooling systems, which both include wooden slat gripping, positioning and securing means, and insulation panel gripping and positioning means, and a tooling controller communicatively coupled to the tooling systems, wherein the tooling systems are instructed so that, if the length of a wooden slat exceeds a predetermined threshold, the wooden slat gripping means grip the wooden slat at different parts, and are moved relatively to each other in order to align their centerlines and to correct the straightness of the wooden slat.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an inlet lip skin part according to a nominal definition comprising dimensions of the lip skin and associated tolerances, the method comprising the steps of: a) obtaining at least one blank from at least one metal sheet; b) deforming the at least one blank into an intermediate part; and c) machining a first surface of the intermediate part with a first machining path, said first machining path being independent of the real dimensions of the intermediate part, and being based on the nominal definition of the lip skin part, so as to obtain a semi-machined part, and d) machining a second surface of the semi-machined part with a second machining path, said second machining path being based on real dimensions of the semi-machined part and the nominal definition of the lip skin part.