SheMet Programm

Sunday, April 2nd 2023

18:00 Casual Reception

20:30 End

Monday, April 3rd 2023

08:30 Registration

09:00 Plenary Session

  • Opening Ceremony
  • Dr.-Ing. Thomas Behr (Mercedes Benz): Automotive body of the future @ Mercedes-Benz
    The requirements for future automobiles will continue to include the aspects of functional fulfillment and performance, but as is generally known, the aspect of lightweight construction will gain in importance. In the context of the lecture, the Vision EQXX for lightweight construction will be discussed. Efficient design and manufacturing processes such as Bionicast® and Tailored Tempering will be adressed as well. Considering the sustainability of the body materials, which can be seen in the context of Green Steel and Green Alu, will be essential in the future. This aspect is also presented from the perspective of an OEM.

09:50 Coffee Break

10:10 Parallel Session

Joining by forming

Session chair: Prof. Livan Fratini

Quality and reliability

Session chair: Prof. Hinnerk Hagenah

11:50 Lunch

12:50 Plenary Session

  • Prof. Lukasz Madej: Full-field microstructure-based models in metal forming simulation
    The topic presents a concept of full-field microstructure-based models that can be considered as digital shadows of the metallic material’s microstructure during numerical simulations of forming operations. Recent progress in the area of full-field modelling is directly driven by the development of modern metallic materials, often of multiphase nature. Such microstructure types lead to local heterogeneities influencing material behaviour and, eventually, macroscopic properties of the formed product. The concept of the digital material shadow, stages of the model development, and examples of practical applications to simulation of microstructure evolution during sheet forming operations will be discussed within the talk. The presented results will demonstrate the capabilities and also current limitations of such microstructure-based models in the numerical design of final product properties.

13:20 Change to Sessions

13:30 Parallel Session

Joining by forming

Session chair: Prof. Paulo Martins

High speed cutting and forming of sheet metals

Session chair: Prof. Verena Kräusel

15:10 Coffee Break

15:30 Parallel Sessions

Incremental forming

Session chair: Prof. Fabrizio Micari

Material characterization

Session chair: Dr. Michael Lechner

17:10 End of scientific programm

18:30 Start of social events (Guided City Tour, Visiting a Beer Cellar)

Tuesday, April 4th 2023

09:00 Plenary Session

  • Dr. Tassilo Christ: Digitizing the Sheet Metal Value Chain – Use Cases and Challenges
    Like all corporates the sheet metal industry is facing numerous business challenges. Ever Increasing quality demands, tightening margins, shrinking lot sizes and increasing product individualization are aggravated by disrupted supply chains, a lack of skilled workforce and increasing requirements towards sustainability in production, energy management and recycling processes. Enhanced automation and efficiency optimization of all manufacturing steps are – and have always been – the means to cope with these challenges. Continuing this logic the “fourth industrial revolution” meets the pressure to innovate by establishing an ever more complete digital end-to-end representation of the value chain from raw material extraction and supply chain to production processes and client-side product life-cycle. In this presentation we discuss three particular added value aspects delivered by digitization in the sheet metal industry and the challenges associated therewith. The examples originate from our collaboration with the LFT team and different industrial corporates and cover inline quality control with AI-based image recognition tools, cross-corporate data exchange along hybrid manufacturing processes and cross-domain simulations in sheet metal forming.

09:30 Change to Sessions

09:40 Parallel Session

Modelling

Session chair: Prof. Lukasz Madej

Presses and press tools

Session chair: Prof. Andrea Ghiotti

10:55 Coffee break

11:15 Parallel Sessions

Warm and hot forming

Session chair: Prof. Bernd-Arno Behrens

Sustainability

Session chair: Prof. Joost Duflou

12:30 Lunch

13:40 Plenary Session

  • Prof. Dietmar Drummer: ORGANOSHEETS – promising material class for function integrated lightweight structures and circle economy
    Endless fiber reinforced plastics are well known as the best material solution for weight specific mechanical properties. Semi finished sheets, made of thermoplastic polymers with endless fiber reinforcement, so called Organosheets, offer many . different integrated functions and can be formed easily and fast to complex products. Their ability for process combinations . i.e with further mass production processes like injection molding or with joining technologies and their ability for recycling . opens new fields of sustainable lightweight structures.

14:10 Change to Sessions

14:20 Parallel Session

Joining by forming

Session chair: Prof. Gerson Meschut

Material characterization

Session chair: Prof. Ravi Kumar

15:35 Coffee Break

15:55 Parallel Sessions

Joining by forming

Session chair: Dr. Michael Lechner

Warm and hot forming

Session chair: Dr. Emad Scharifi

17:10 End of scientific programm

19:00 Conference dinner

23:00 End

Wednesday, April 5th 2023

09:00 Plenary Session

  • Prof. Jian Cao: AI for forming and additive manufacturing
    Current research efforts at our manufacturing group are rooted in advancing new flexible manufacturing processes using the combination of the mechanics-driven and data-driven approaches. In this talk, I will share our recent work towards the integration of the fundamental process mechanics, process control, and techniques including machine learning to achieve desired properties.

09:30 Change to Sessions

09:40 Parallel Session

Incremental forming

Session chair: Prof. Luigino Filice

Processes

Session chair: Prof. Hinnerk Hagenah

11:20 Coffee Break

11:40 Parallel Sessions

12:55 Conference closure

13:05 Lunch

14:00 End of conference

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