Creating forged stainless steel parts
The design office transforms your drawings of finished parts into drawings of as-forged parts.
All your parts are reproduced in 3D using Solidworks™ so that they can be manufactured in the forging process. Our design office checks several technical points, including dimensional tolerances, form tolerances, radii, drafts, positioning of the parting line, etc.
Once you have validated the forging drawings, the design office uses the CAE system to finalise the creation of the metal parts by creating the forging and trimming tools. It creates a 3D simulation of the machining path of each tool to ensure the optimum visual appearance of the parts after forging.
How is a forging tool created?
The rules for designing a forging tool are not limited to a single forming cavity in a die. Various studies are necessary in order to :
- Ensure all your technical requirements are incorporated when the metal parts are created
- Ensure the high quality surface appearance of the parts after forging
- Optimise the machining time of the forging dies (tools)
- Improve the service life of the tools in order to reduce production costs
Project manager
The project manager is responsible for your project from beginning to end, from the design of your forged part right through to its series production.
Expertise
- Creation of forged 316L stainless steel parts or other materials (drawings and tools)
- Use of their technical expertise to optimise your projects
- Monitoring and validation of forging trials
- Monitoring the manufacturing process and compliance with logistics lead times
CAE team
There are 5 people in the design office. All the members of the team are trained in the use of design and machining software and have technical qualifications. They all have at least 5 years’ professional experience working in a design office and using CAE in an industrial environment.
CAE equipment
- FORGINAL industrie’s technical rules :
These are general rules governing tool design. They are defined in-house by the technical teams and represent the company’s experience gained over 35 years in the industry.
They are a mixture of traditional forging rules and FORGINAL industrie‘s own specialist skills.
- SOLIDWORKS™ software
- MASTERCAM™ software
- Forge 4 software (forging simulation)
Dominique SAUZEDDE
FORGINAL industrie
I am the manager of the design office which is responsible for making parts, from their computer-aided design through to their series production. I like what I do because it is one of those rare jobs where you go from a simple "lump of metal" to a finished part which requires a high degree of precision.