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Introduction and Need for Advanced Sheet Forming Techniques
Published in Ajay, Ravi Kant Mittal, Incremental Sheet Forming Technologies, 2020
Hence, there is always a need for the development of innovative flexible manufacturing processes for small-quantity production and rapid prototyping of metal and non-metal components. The new global competitive environment is driving attention to such processes. In the case of parts made from sheets, a new class of forming processes denoted as “incremental sheet forming” processes is gaining importance due to its capabilities of meeting the variable requirements of manufacturing sheet material components.
Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) as small batch production method
Published in Paulo Jorge Bártolo, Artur Jorge Mateus, Fernando da Conceição Batista, Henrique Amorim Almeida, João Manuel Matias, Joel Correia Vasco, Jorge Brites Gaspar, Mário António Correia, Nuno Carpinteiro André, Nuno Fernandes Alves, Paulo Parente Novo, Pedro Gonçalves Martinho, Rui Adriano Carvalho, Virtual and Rapid Manufacturing, 2007
Incremental sheet forming is a method for prototyping and manufacturing sheet metal parts. The method was originally developed in Japan for the prototyping needs in automobile industry (Sawada et al. 1999). The commercial machine is portal type equipment. Today ISF is used in many fields of industry for prototyping and for manufacturing end products.
Sheet metal shrink flanging process: a critical review of current scenario and future prospects
Published in Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 2023
Apart from conventional forming/press-working/stamping, incremental sheet forming is another major and innovative approach of sheet metal forming which is also industrially applied for manufacturing customized sheet metal parts.[35,36,81,82,107,108] Although conventional sheet metal forming provides higher production rate and good surface finish for large volume production.[20,68,109,110] Due to the fourth industrial revolution and changes in demands of customers, the concept of mass production had changed over the years to the concept of mass customization.[9,10] Incremental sheet forming had emerged to adapt to this change in strategy of manufacturing and hence it had emerged as a flexible sheet forming process.[111–114] The most primitive form of experimental realization of incremental sheet forming is the application of fixture/die-less experimental setup fixed, in which sheet is fixed by blank-holder through bolts and clamped to the fixture and the whole setup is based on to a CNC milling machine and then usually a roller/hemispherical ball tool was utilized to deform the sheet incrementally in steps as per the feeded CNC coding.[115–119] Besides this, incremental sheet forming can be realized experimentally by using amino machines and robotic arms and specially designed experimentally setups also.[120–122]