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Development of an automated structural design system for progressive dies

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The design of progressive dies is a very knowledge-intensive, complex, and time-consuming process. This paper describes a computer-aided structural design system for progressive dies with drawing, bending, and punching operations. Taking advantage of a pre-built design knowledge and database, this system is able to output designs of the main and standard parts of a progressive die upon users inputting a minimum set of design information. Our system is implemented on top of CATIA V5 software and uses its built-in modules, including Part Design, Assembly Design, and Knowledge Advisor. Our system also consists of an inference engine and a user interface. The experimental results show that our system successfully reduced the design time from about seven working days to within 2 h for the structural design of the main and standard parts of a progressive die of an upper shell for a mobile phone, which can dramatically save on design time and cost and also provide excellent design quality.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, 824, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Bor-Tsuen Lin, Kun-Min Huang, Kuan-Yu Su & Cheng-Yi Hsu

  2. Metal Industries Research and Development Center, Kaohsiung, 824, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Kun-Min Huang

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Lin, BT., Huang, KM., Su, KY. et al. Development of an automated structural design system for progressive dies. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 68, 1887–1899 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-013-4986-x

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