Technological Process Design for the Flanged Parts Using a LabVIEW Application
The metal-forming processes provide a high degree of material utilization, a high working capacity, a high quality of the parts and so on. Taking in account the characteristics of these processes and the current requirements of the market economy, it is necessary to extend the research in the metal-forming field in order to develop new solutions that lead to optimization of the metal-forming technologies and, implicit, to obtain the best quality-price ratio. Also, the software for the simulation, data acquisition, data processing and computer aided design are necessary. This paper presents an application developed using a graphical programming language called LabVIEW, through which, the dimensions of the sheet blank for the flanged parts are calculated based on the specifications of the work drawing, checks the hole flangeability and calculates the force required by the metal-forming processes.