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IUL wins outstanding paper in manufacturing processes at NAMRC 2022

Announcement of the award at the NAMRC 2022 © Daniel Cooper
Announcement of the award at the NAMRC 2022

The paper "A control strategy for incremental profile forming" of authors R. Nakahata (The Ohio State University, OSU), S. Seetharaman (OSU), K. Srinivasan (OSU)  und A. E. Tekkaya (TU Dortmund University, IUL) wins the award for "Outstanding Paper in Manufacturing Processes" at the North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) 2022. NAMRC is recognized as North America’s preeminent and longest-running international forum for applied research and industrial applications in manufacturing and design. The paper discusses the development of a geometry-based online control for the Incremental Profile Forming process (IPF). The IPF process is used to produce tubular parts with varying cross-sections in axial tube direction. However, the geometrical accuracy of the produced parts is yet low. The developed control models shall increase the accuracy of the produced parts through the simultaneous geometry measurement by laser triangulation. Through the achieved results, the understanding of the forming process has been increased and the expanded process accuracy shall increase the attractiveness of the process for industrial application.