From Strip to Shape: Practical COPRA RF Lifehacks for Roll Forming Success

It’s often the small details that make the difference and thereby lead to success. Roll forming operations are no exception to this. By mastering practical tips and techniques, you render your daily design operations more efficient and thus achieve more reliable results, accelerate setup times and enhance predictability through the effective application of core principles.

This is why we dedicate our upcoming COPRA Virtual Conference to practical, everyday tools and techniques in COPRA RF that will greatly contribute to your roll forming success.

TOPICS

During this 20-minutes session, our expert Carl Stephenson will delve into the fundamentals of roll forming, starting with an introduction to the material library, followed by a look at strip width calculation and calibration methods. He will then address spring-back behaviour and how COPRA RF allows you to account for it effectively during the design phase.

From there, we will look at the use of Virtual Stations to optimise forming strategies and review the new Deformation Technology Module (DTM) focusing on forming length calculations and strain analysis. This will include an overview of longitudinal elongation and its potential impact on profile quality and process stability.

After the presentation, our team is looking forward to answering your questions and to discussing the insights you gained during the presentation with you.

Register now for this upcoming session full of invaluable tips:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8424501425816651360

PRESENTER

Carl Stephenson 
first started his Roll Forming career in 1994 as an apprentice with the former Equator Wheels and Sections. He worked firstly as a roll form machine operator, followed by time spent in their tool room as a lathe and CNC operator manufacturing roll tools, prior to joining the design and development team where he began his COPRA journey. 
Since then, he became a Bachelor of Engineering in Manufacturing Engineering, (dissertation upon Roll Tool Design and Development), whilst continuing his Roll Forming career, in both the design and development of steel partition systems with EWS.
Following a short stint with the Hadley Group, he then joined data M to head up our UK operation and North American sales and COPRA training.  He is also very active within the design and development area, providing roll tool design and analysis service to the UK, North American and beyond, with well over 2000 tool sets under his belt, he certainly likes a challenge and utilizing the many benefits of both COPRA RF and COPRA FEA RF within service projects.