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12. March 2019

Extended forming limits through active material guidance

match | Environment-friendly innovation using fibre composites is impeded by tight forming limits combined with a challenging automation process. In this context, the Institute of Assembly Technology (match) is developing a method for automated mass production.

Fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) have become indispensable in modern automotive lightweight construction. However, high flexibility requirements of FRP manufacturing processes inhibit the automation of the mostly inflexible processes with long changeover and start-up times. The reasons are the increasing variance of many products resulting in small lot sizes. This is exactly where the joint project ProVorPlus on “Functionally integrated process technology for preassembly and component manufacturing of FRP metal hybrids” of match and the Institute of Forming Technology and Machines of Leibniz Universität Hannover starts. The project aim is to overcome automation problems like robot-assisted handling of dimensionally unstable cropped FRP parts, which apart from that, are mostly plain and may assume very complex geometries.

by Christopher Bruns

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Significance for the production

  • Economic processing of fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP)
  • Automated handling of heated and dimensionally unstable semi-finished parts
  • Active material guidance prevents fibre fractures and buckle formation
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Demonstrator: Battery tray for hybrid vehicle. (Photo: match, Volkswagen)
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Handling first, forming next: Process route for battery tray production. (Photo: match, IFUM)
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Active material guidance: New system prevents imperfections in organosheet forming. (Photo: match, Volkswagen)
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Simulation-based process design: From positioning strategy to product quality check. (Photo: match, Volkswagen)

Contact

Christopher Bruns, M.Sc.

(+49 511) 762-18247
bruns@match.uni-hannover.de
www.match.uni-hannover.de

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