Sheet metal bending is a metal form

Sheet metal bending is a metal forming process, in which flat sheets are bent along straight bend lines in
a specific bending sequence to form three-dimensional parts. A large number of tools with different
characteristics can be used in this process. The task to choose the right tooling for a requested sheet metal
part is however one of the bottle necks in process planning. An inefficient tool selection may result in
failure of finding a feasible bending sequence. In previous work, methodologies for tool selection and
optimization have been proposed. The presented paper describes a framework to implement these
methodologies into a system that allows automatic tool selection in consistent consideration of bend
sequencing. As a result, automated and optimized tool selection for sheet metal bending is achieved, as
illustrated by performance test results for a robust software implementation4.

結果 (中文) 3:

弯曲成形是金属成形过程，其中平板弯曲沿直线弯曲线
特定序列形成三维零件的弯曲。一大批具有不同特点
工具可以用在这个过程中。选择一个要求钣金
部分正确的工具的任务却是一个瓶颈过程规划。一种低效率的工具的选择可能会导致
找到一个可行的折弯顺序失败。在以往的工作中，刀具的选择和优化的方法已经被提出
。本文介绍了一个框架来实现这些方法为
系统允许自动选择工具一致考虑弯曲
测序。作为一个结果，自动化是实现板材折弯刀具的优化选择，通过一个强大的软件为
implementation4性能测试结果。