Our production processes
The rules for making forging tools
All FORGINAL industrie tools are studied, developed and produced in-house.
Over the years, we have established a set of technical measures to optimize the creation of forged parts, in the constant search for reducing costs and production time.
FORGINAL industrie has established general principles for the creation of its forging tools, rules by part family, as well as for each production tool (pneumatic drop hammer, board drop hammer, presses, etc.). These rules have been established in order to guarantee and improve:
- The safety of the blacksmith at his workstation
- The creep of different types of material in the forging tools
- The fineness of the joint planes
- The offset of the forging tools during striking
- The aesthetics of your parts
The creation of forged parts
The creation of metal parts is envisaged in 2 stages:
- The construction of the forged part in 3D on Solidworks in order to:
- Check the feasibility of your forging project
Add the drafts, radii, placement of the parting line and other data specific to our profession - Optimize the PMO (implementation weight) which corresponds to the weight of the raw material necessary for forging production
- Guarantee the durability of the tool over time and minimize renovations between manufacturing
- Determine how many engravings can be machined in the tooling => the more parts are forged at the same time, the higher the rate. This of course reduces production costs
- Determine the number and shape of the blanks
- Determine on which machine the part will be forged (depending on the power required and the type of raw material).
The production of the forging tooling on Mastercam:
- Creation of machining paths for the tooling
The tooling is checked before being launched into production on the FORGE 4 software. The material flow and forging temperatures are controlled by computer simulation, before being launched into the forge.
