Novel incremental sheet forming system with tool-path calculation approach

Abstract

Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) is a prosperous forming technique since the end of the 20th Century. Research projects are still active in this topic with the goal to understand more deeply this flexible process and to reach the full industrialisation of it. These investigations are mainly focusing on the one-side version of ISF, however only the two side variants of this process could reach the ultimate flexibility. This paper gives an overview of the recent results and inventions in the field of ISF processes. A new solution of the Two-Sided ISF processes realisation is given. A new approach to the tool-path calculation is outlined which is based on a recently patented system of the authors.