Feasibility vs. Validation

Posted by stephens on Mar 11, 2010 in Engineering Decisions, Tips & Techniques | 0 comments

I see alot of shops, with good intentions, performing engineering in the wrong sequence. They process a job. They design the dies. Then, they run formability analysis. For the first time. The first time formability simulation is run is called feasibility. The question here is: will it work? In other words, is the product design, material specification, and...

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Feasibility vs. Validation

Posted by stephens on Jul 30, 2009 in Engineering Decisions, Tips & Techniques | 2 comments

My dear friend Eric Kam does a great job conveying stamping simulation “geek speak” with his blog. There has been much talk recently in the industry and online about forming simulation feasibility versus validation. Reams of paper documents and terabytes of data have been generated by the PhD crowd about this topic. From the trenches, let me boil it...

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