Virtual Manufacturing Suite

In the world of disruptive design changes, Virtual Manufacturing Suite (VMS) applications span a wide range of materials and processes. VMS is a suite of solutions that helps you virtually develop, check feasibility, and validate the manufacturing of single components and their assembly through a wide range of joining techniques. It applies to simple or complex light weight engineered objects like a body-in-white, an aero-engine or airframe structures, to name a few prominent ones.

The portfolio of VMS encompasses the following process families:

• Sheet Metal Forming (Stamping, Hydroforming, Super-plastic forming…)
• Casting (Die, Sand & Investment Casting)
• Composites Manufacturing (Draping & Thermo-forming, RTM/Infusion, Curing)
• Sheet Molding Compound-SMC
• Joining (Thermal-welding, Mechanical & Chemical joining)
• Assembly (Distortion engineering)
• Heat Treatment

VMS helps you:

• Secure product feasibility at preliminary design phase;
• Validate & optimize materials, processes, product designs for best product quality, performance & cost;
• Engineer manufacturing defects and their impacts on product or assembly structural performance;
• Challenge a standard manufacturing approach with alternative processes;
• Identify adjustments that can be made within the constraints of the already approved or constructed tools, to ensure a launch without triggering new engineering…

VMS puts all these capabilities together.

Typical applications across industries covered by VMS are the following:

• Sheet Metal Forming of large flexible panels, structural parts, doors and closures, cold, warm & hot form
• Composites - Light weighting beyond metals covering many different applications in Automotive & Aerospace
• Light Alloys premium quality casting for body work, combustion engines, conventional power trains and electric drive systems
• High temperature / special metal premium quality castings in Aerospace
• Cast Iron & Steel premium quality castings in Energy, Heavy Industry & Machinery
• Weld Quality & Assembly Distortion Engineering to fabricate sub-assemblies and assemblies