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Thinning and Circle Grid (Surface) Strain Analysis Thinning and Circle Grid (Surface) Strain Analyses are Engineering Quality tools that can help determine where trouble spots could develop during the production processing of your parts. The forming limit of a given steel is based on the thickness and the strain hardening exponent (n-value). Knowing these parameters, and their minimum values likely to be encountered in production, it is possible to assess if the stamping process is inherently robust enough to withstand the normal variation in material properties. Engineering Quality Solutions can provide training on how you can do formability analysis on your own - we'll come right to your location. We can also provide training on what makes one steel or aluminum grade different from another - and why you should care. Strain Analysis Reporting (STAR) Program This single computer program creates forming limit diagrams and a full engineering report of the analysis. You enter the base data, and the program does all the calculating, plotting, formatting, and presenting of the results. Materials Selection & Optimization In today's cost and quality competitive world, it is imperative to use the most cost effective materials solution for each application, realizing the different demands that are put on each part - considering formability, corrosion, durability, stiffness, and cost. Our experts can help guide you to the optimal solution for your needs. Metallurgical Processing Guidance Engineering Quality Solutions can offer guidance on steel mill metallurgical processing parameters, from the hot strip mill through all processes to coating and temper rolling. Our expertise covers all products from commercial steel to the advanced high strength steels, as well as electrical steels and tinplate. OEM/Supplier Problem Resolution Splits, wrinkles, high scrap rates? Let the experts at Engineering Quality Solutions identify the root cause solution for you. Is it a manufacturing problem or a materials issue? The material supplier says it’s a manufacturing issue, and the part manufacturer claims it’s bad material. Engineering Quality Solutions can help resolve the dispute by being the Problem Resolution Arbitrator. When both parties agree to let Engineering Quality Solutions be the impartial source to find the root cause solution, finger pointing ends and both companies win. Engineering Quality Solutions has the unique combination of experience in manufacturing, metal forming and materials to deliver answers for all of your problems. Holistic Cost Reduction Analysis The staff at Engineering Quality Solutions has extensive experience working on cost reduction projects. Our experience makes us uniquely qualified to offer services in:
Let Engineering Quality Solutions help your company find the cost reduction solutions needed to thrive in business today and for tomorrow. It is now possible to actually engineer the optimum binder development for a new sheet metal stamping, creating not only parts that will form, but ensuring that the parts have the characteristics that are needed. The techniques are based on the same scientific formability understanding and mathematics as the finite element method analysis programs. But, unlike the FEM analysis programs that are essentially a computerized tryout of an existing design, these techniques help achieve the optimum binder design as it is being created the first time. Specific tryout instructions for blank size and location, draw-in amounts and bead tuning are created for both the tryout die maker and the FEM analyst. Not local? No problem. Let Engineering Quality Solutions represent you to the engineering, quality, and purchasing communities of the OEMs. Engineering Quality Solutions has the expertise in providing computer simulations for a wide range of applications including sheet metal forming, tube hydroforming, springback prediction, dent test simulation, structural analysis, and component crash test simulation. Incremental and one-step approaches are available. Steel Cargo Damage Claim Resolution Does your steel cargo have rust or surface defects, but you are not sure if it is a transportation issue or a mill issue? Let Engineering Quality Solutions do a root-cause analysis to figure out if your defect is from sea water or fresh water, or a defect that came from steel mill processing. We'll use approaches like Optical and Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Crystallography, Optical Emission Spectrometry, and of course our experience from working in steel mills to help you assign responsibility for the claims.
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