Customers: Ford Motor Company Mechanical and Instrument Engineering Project date: 2018/05 - 2018/11
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2018
On November 12, 2018 the Ford company reported that it automated hot stamping of parts from heavy-duty the barista became. According to the company, the automated manufacturing techniques of body parts by method of hot stamping implemented by Ford are skhoreografirovanny action in which huge furnaces, robots and lasers with the temperature up to 3000 ° participate. The parts made using hot stamping from heavy-duty the barista of steel provides the Ford cars with the margin of safety necessary for reliable protection of passengers in road accident.
The technology using which for thousands of years did steel stronger is the cornerstone. We implemented materials and automatic equipment to improve and accelerate process of hot molding of metal. Dale Wishnousky, vice president for production of the European division Ford |
The automatic transfer line of hot stamping was completely integrated into production at the plant of the company in Saarlui (Germany). During upgrade of the enterprise, for November, 2018 investments of Ford into re-equipment of the plant made 600 million euros. For November, 2018 hot stamping is used in production of the next Ford Focus.
According to representatives of the company, in hot stamping the procurements for parts warmed up to 930 ° are used. Robots unload them in a form of the hydraulic press developing pressure to 1150 tons. For November, 2018 molding and cooling are made in 3 seconds. Boristy steel by this moment reaches such durability that for giving of a final shape and removal of excess metal laser beams which temperature exceeds lava temperature are used.
Boristy steel, for November, 2018 the strongest of used in the automobile industry, is widely applied in the Ford cars. The cage of security of salon made of it allows to save vital space for passengers of the car in case of accident. From the barista of steel, in particular, front and average struts and also the amplifiers of doors providing the maximum rigidity at side blow and turning of the car are made.