• Registration of friction properties of sheet metal/lubricant combinations
  • Optimisation of drawbead forms and drawbead materials
  • Optimisation of drawing edge and die edge radii
  • Registration of wear behaviour of tool material and tool coatings
  • Characterisation of tribo-systems
  • Tempered strip drawing tests (plane, bead, with deflection)
  • Characterisation of lubricants
  • Endurance tests with exemplary pressing processes (run through of entire coils up to a width of 300mm)