Individualisation and personalisation of products, also called “mass customisation” is the trend of the future. This requires a high flexibility in the planning of production and process in companies in order to counteract today’s economic price pressure. The process has to work faultless up from the first stroke, because standstill of the press means an immense financial loss.

The Forschungsgesellschaft Umformtechnik mbH has already been offering a bilateral possibility in form of industrial orders for process and tool analysis at the customer’s site for more than 30 years. A team of experienced forming and punching experts analyses your forming process with its fundamental knowledge and supports you in starting the process or putting the tool into service up to serial production. As support, the FGU mbH uses a great variety of FEM-calculating software that enables to visualise the forming process “step by step” and in this way to guarantee a better understanding of the process.