Creating a Virtual Shadow of the Manufacturing of Automotive Components
- Post by: Tobias Larsson
- 10th June 2024
- No Comment
Abstract
Within the automotive industry, there is an increasing demand for a paradigmshift in terms of which materials are used for the manufacturing of the automotive body. Globalclimate goals are forcing a rapid adaption of new, advanced, sustainable material grades suchas the fossil free steels and materials containing higher scrap content. With the introduction ofthese new and untested materials, methods for accounting for variation in material propertiesare needed directly in the press lines.The following study will focus on creating an initial virtual shadow of the manufacturing of aVolvo XC90 inner door panel through the application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Thevirtual shadow differs from the concept of the digital twin by only being a virtual representationof the production line, with training data generated exclusively by numerical simulations, andhaving no automated communication with the physical press line control system. The virtualshadow can be used as an assistance to the press line operators to see how different press linesettings and material parameter variations will impact the quality of the stamped component.The study aims to validate the virtual shadow through accurate predictions of the materialdraw-in measured in the physical press line.
Keywords
Design support system, discrete element method, engineering design, surrogate modelling, system of systems, Decision making, Discrete event simulation, Mining, Critical challenges, Design support systems, Different granularities, Discrete elements method, Discrete-event simulations, Equipment design, Surrogate modeling, System of system simulations, System-of-systems, Construction equipment
Citation
A Barlo et al 2024, Creating a Virtual Shadow of the Manufacturing of Automotive Components, IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 1307 012037 DOI 10.1088/1757-899X/1307/1/012037