Abstract
For manufacturing small batch sizes of sheet metal products a new technology called asymmetric incremental sheet forming (AISF) has been developed since the early 1990s. The main advantage of this process is its high flexibility, since no or little product specific tooling is needed. Therefore free formed unique parts or small batches can be produced cheaply and speedily. Economic studies show a potential usage for batches up to approximately 500 parts (Tuomi and Lamminen, 2004). Since the forming forces needed are not dependent on the dimension of the part AISF can be used to produce even very large parts with inexpensive machines.
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Brüninghaus, J., Krewet, C., Kuhlenkötter, B. (2013). Robot Assisted Asymmetric Incremental Sheet Forming. In: Brell-Çokcan, S., Braumann, J. (eds) Rob | Arch 2012. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1465-0_16
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