- Merges the capabilities of FASTBLANK, BLANKNEST, PROGNEST & OPTIMIZER.
- Facilitate Cost Engineers to develop quotations and evaluates for piece part costing by creating accurate blank shape developments, operating initial formability risk assessment, and establishing target costs for sheet metal components
- Software uses a mathematical physics-based approach to develop accurate blank shapes (CHI Solver) based on forming process, material properties and accounts for stretch and deformation of 3D product geometry.
- Reports are generated and used to arbitrate Target Costs and furnish a sound basis for vendor negotiations. COSTOPTIMIZER® provides considerable time savings and allows costing engineers furnish with results immediately with certainty.
• Cost engineers gain self-confidence in quoting and estimating sheet metal components
• Scientific, physics-based approach quickly anticipate accurate material projection
• Improves quote accuracy to better position your company
• Recommends product design changes that can influence material utilization
• Assesses part manufacturability interests
• Fosters confidence and confidence with customers/suppliers
- Combines the power of FTI’s leading formability analysis, blank development, and blank nesting tools with dedicated product and process optimization tools that help recognise design changes that diminish material costs while significantly reducing the number of engineering design changes triggered by formability issues.
- Used by cost engineers and product engineers to carry out formability risk assessment, develop specific blank shapes, handle material utilization and establishes target costs for sheet metal components.
- Reports are certainly generated to summarize product design concerns and material utilization.
• Recognizes product design changes that enhance material utilization and reduce costs
• Technical physics-based approach identifies formability issues at product design stage lowering ECOs
• Classifies product design changes that improve quality, material utilization, and reduce weight and costs for optimal material usage
• Enhances quote accuracy to better position your company
• Accurately characterizes splits and wrinkles using Forming Limit Diagram (FLD), Safety Zone in supplementing to Thickness Strain, Major/ Minor Strain, etc.
• Computes Spring-back to predict concerns for tooling and provide information for Tolerance Negotiation
• Reports encapsulate product design issues and material utilization providing first level communication between product and tooling suppliers (internal/external)
• Stimulates confidence and trust with your customers/suppliers
- Merges the ability of FTI’s premier formability analysis, blank development, and blank nesting tools with specialized product and process optimization tools that improve to recognize design changes that lessen material and processing costs.
- Builds a documented process plan involving press requirements and determines number of operations, tonnage, and detailed costing for transfer, tandem, and sheet metal progressive dies.
• Set up target cost for piece price and tooling with a detailed process plan for quoting
• Produces images to detail die actions in each operation
• Results in increased accuracy and facilitates a faster quoting process
• Scientific physics-based approach to process planning confirmed by OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers worldwide
• Analyses press requirements such as tonnage, bed size, shut height, energy, and opt for appropriate press
• Reliable and repeatable method for assessing tooling costs with detailed reports that link to any system
- Interactive ecosystem for constructing and documenting process plans centred on part features such as flanges, holes, and embossments.
- Fosters a detailed process plan for quoting from 3D CAD design.
- Produces images to feature die actions in each operation which results in enhanced accuracy and facilitates a faster quoting process with a scientific physics-based methodology to process planning
- Determines least press requirements such as tonnage, bed size, shut height, energy, and pick out appropriate press.
• Utilizes information from multiple workbenches to distinct operations structure such as forming, piercing, trimming and cams
• Complexity (severity) of every single operation is considered
• Meticulous forecast of die load and die energy
• Minimum press requirements such as tonnage, weight, size, shut height are established
• Make use of industry standardized costing methodologies that can be tailored to match company’s standards
• Sensitivity to rates for die construction, machine design, and material costs
• Results are supplied as hours or cost for the process and for each operation
• Die layout with scrap plan is produced
• Complete reports include summaries, tonnage, sizes, costs break-down per operation, and comprehensive documentation of the process plan