Process: thermoforming and blow molding simulation

PAM-FORM for Plastics and Trims extends the blow forming and thermoforming simulation frontier from a simple formability evaluation to a complete virtual thermoforming solution for industrial use. It provides unsurpassed productivity gains and flexibility for formability evaluation and process validation. PAM-FORM simulates the entire forming process, making it possible to prove thermoforming tools and processes on computer, before any hardware is built.

With PAM-FORM, you can predict wrinkles, splits if any, final thickness…, which up to now could only be obtained by actual tryouts, thus producing all answers required to build hard tooling with confidence. By carrying out these simulations, through successive refinements of forming conditions or geometry, your hard tools will require only fine-tuning before a successful production run.

PAM-FORM enables you diagnosing and solving manufacturing problems in your design, as well as correcting and preventing wrinkling and excessive thinning while improving your tooling. PAM-FORM provides the designers and process engineers with the following help:

. Correct: analyze an existing tooling to improve design and process, reduce the scrap rate and meet product design criteria.

. Prevent: analyze a new design to predict design flaws before tooling takes place, avoiding costly formability problems and time and money spent re-tooling.

Benefits

- Predict forming issues earlier in the production cycle
- Optimize the thermoforming process and tool design
- Improve material selection
- Foster innovation
- Overall cost savings and reduced time to market