LearnForm...
...Self-Learning Sheet Metal Forming System
LearnForm’s overall and most impact-driven objective is a radical substitution of today’s trial and error procedures in deep drawing by a knowledge-based, self-learning production system.
Learnform is a FP7 project supported by EC with a funding of 3.410 M€. The project's duration is 36 months from the 1st of April 2009.
The concept of the project LearnForm consists of the following main ideas:
- The key idea is to develop a self-learning sheet metalforming system which is based on energy control
- Intelligent dies will include forming process multi-sensors in order to give automatic information about local forces and feed rates to a condition-monitoring system. This will help to identify local changes in the forming process.
- An open architecture motion control system adapts the parameters for the forming position, speed and the die gap control according to the identified process changes and product variants and the optimal die gap model.
- Multiple die cushion axes will act with adaptronic force oscillation on the clamping forces between the sheet metal and the die in order to prevent a stick slip effect, a force overload, fissures or folds.