When i was studying in Mechanical Engineering course, my interests were on metal forming technology and welding technology. Fortunately, there was a new software that available in UiTM which is Simufact.forming software. UiTM was the first university in Malaysia that granted with full license of this software. My team consist of four members including two Germany students (Mark and Johannes), Azizul Azfar, and me. We were supervised by Assoc. Prof. Yupiter HP Manurung to explore this latest software that already installed to be used for simulation purpose in Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
The software is a integrated product from two other softwares which are MSC.SuperForm and MSC.SuperForge. It is very useful to simulate metal forming process. It can support in all metal forming applications machines or type of pressed to be used, types of materials, and other parameters. This software is very powerful since it can simulate very accurate and precise as close as the actual condition. It is very useful for the manufacturer to simulate their part in Research and Development stage before it can produce their prototype or mass production. If there are any problems or defects regarding the parts to be used, the Simufact.forming software will show exactly the location of the problematic areas. By having such information, the manufacturer will not waste their money to repeatedly produce the product before it will satisfied them.
Because of the wide functions of this software, a company at Puchong, P.K Berhad Malaysia, has assigned us with a task to show the ability of the software to simulate one of their product which is Water Meter Casing part. By using all the actual parameters that being used by the company to produce that product, we have simulated it, and the result shows that the defected area is exactly the same with the actual one:
Actual (location of crack area)
Simulated (same location of crack area)
Simulated (same location of crack area)
There are two videos that has been produced by our team as an experiment to expand and bend a pipe (trial version):
Expanding process
Bending process
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