A New Process Optimization of Deep Drawing Part for Sheet Metal Forming in Automotive Industry.

Drawing die complexity is higher than conventional stamping operations, nowadays. It needs to decrease stamping die operation numbers for a part to reduce project budget consumption. Therefore, frequency of tearing, thinning, crack occurrence increase while this amendment. Force, blank cutting, blank location on the drawing die and process optimization were investigated to decrease tearing, thinning and crack occurrence in Transit bodyside inner panels which have over 110 mm. deep drawing process. Formability was improved at the end of this study. Thus production scrap, stoppage time of stamping line were decreased over 90%. This study was conducted at Ford Otosan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]