Find it digitally, not on the roll forming line – How COPRA FEA RF helps you save time and costs

In today’s competitive environment, reducing costs, saving time and enhancing efficiency while maintaining high quality is key for companies. In the roll forming industry this means minimising the costly and time-consuming trial-and-error processes in design and tooling manufacturing, thereby reducing material and tooling waste as well as unnecessary delays in the project stages of a roll forming line.

This is where COPRA FEA RF comes into play. By using our simulation software COPRA FEA RF as a virtual roll forming line, engineers can identify, understand and solve potential manufacturing problems before tooling is made and assembly is initialized.

Learn more about how to use COPRA FEA RF wisely in our next COPRA Virtual Conference!

Current FEA users will get invaluable tips and tricks on how to interpret their simulations, which information they should look for and how they can solve potential forming problems. Companies interested in FEA will comprehend the engineering and financial benefits of introducing FEA into their roll forming design process.

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Our expert Carl Stephenson will use a high-precision structural profile in this session to show you how development is conducted from the initial roll forming concept through the FEA analysis and the subsequent optimisation. When running the simulation for the design which looked initially feasible, COPRA FEA RF identifies significant problems – ultimately causing the simulation to stop. Carl will show you along those issues, how FEA not only helps you to identify the potential forming problems but also how the different FEA tools help you to understand the reasons behind those issues and how to solve them before reaching production. Lastly, he will quantify the save in costs and time enabled by the use of COPRA FEA RF for this case study.

After the presentation, our team is happy to answer all your questions.

Join us for this COPRA Virtual Conference and learn more about how COPRA FEA RF becomes a significant time and cost-saving tool for you!

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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.