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Roll Forming Technology at its best – data M do
Brasil will assist
When taking the first steps of
development in the middle of the Nineties of the last century the data M team
had some visions about what Simulation Technology might be able to do one day.
Today these visions have become a reality. COPRA® FEA RF helps to understand the
roll form process, traces occurring problems and generates a target-oriented
optimisation. Of course, the roll form technology itself is also subject to
development which implies that every now and then it will become necessary to
add some new features to the FEA software.
COPRA® RF 2009 comes with a new commercial package and a lot of additional
features for the simulation of roll formed tubes and sections. This new version
has come closer to reality than any other simulation or analysis software ever.
However, not only the FE Analysis software, but also the well known data M
design package COPRA® RF has been enhanced.
The company
data M Sheet Metal Solutions GmbH was founded in June 1987 with the objective of
developing mere software. In those days everyone was convinced that as much as
possible in a production process should be automated. That was the mainstream
trend. Out of this work slowly arose the process simulation sector, but very
soon the founders, Dipl.-Ing. Albert Sedlmaier and Stefan Freitag, realised that
the design software alone was not sufficient since the customers requested
additional technical services. Consequently in 1989 they themselves offered
services and commenced design work. Beside software development this sector very
soon became a business pillar of its own. “That changed a lot with us“, so
Albert Sedlmaier, “we increasingly focused on process simulation, i.e. a
designing engineer designed something and we wrote an analysing program, which
calculated the result of the rollforming process and simulated the rollforming
process.”
Customer proximity is most important
Day by day companies from all over the world call the sheet metal experts and
ask for their assistance. Some time ago Sedlmaier realised the high potential,
which derives from the internationalisation of his firm and its services.
Consequently he began to look for distribution and engineering partners in
Europe and overseas with whom they can market not only their software products
but also their services.
Meanwhile data M found an excellent partner for the establishment of “data M
do Brasil”: Saulo Figueiredo is a specialist in roll design,
simulation and manufacturing processes for rollforming. In the last 5 years, he
also worked as a “technical consultant engineer” to rolls and machine-makers in
Brazil.
data M do Brasil – a highly technical service
centre
So far data M delivered the feasibility studies and the tooling as well as the
roll forming concept to its customers. These services will in future be
complemented by a machine, which can produce prototypes of rolled sections. Not
only on the basis of “flexible roll forming” or so-called “3D roll forming”, on
which data M has been working for many years, the company in future will be in a
position to offer its customers a complete concept consisting of theory and
practical experience – from feasibility studies and the tooling concept as well
as the rollforming concept to the prototype of the section.
data M Sheet Metal Solutions
will be present
at the
TuboTech 2009 on booth
544, hall 01
If you have any question, please do
not hesitate to contact:
Mr. Albert Sedlmaier
Phone: +49 8024 640-0
Fax: +49 8024 640-300
e-mail: datam@datam.de |
Mr. Saulo Figueiredo
Phone: +55 17 9772-6779
Fax: +49 8024 640-300
e-mail: s.figueiredo@datam.de |
Reprint free of charge;
Author’s copy kindly requested.
São Paulo /
Valley, September 2009.
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