Veka - IANUS Simulation

Use-case Manufacturing & Industrial Processes

The tooling for window profile extrusion is a specialized area of plastic extrusion, where tools and dies are developed for the production of plastic window profiles. In the extrusion process, plastic is forced through a die that has the shape of the desired profile. After passing through the die, the material retains this shape as it cools and solidifies. Tooling requires specialized knowledge of materials, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics to ensure a high-quality end product. The tools must be robust enough to withstand the extrusion process and easy to clean and maintain. Often, they are customized according to customer requirements.

Initial Situation:

A toolmaker for window profile extrusion develops tools iteratively, based on designer experience, manual post-processing, and real machine testing.

Problem area

Main problems include high time consumption due to manual post-processing, high costs due to material waste, and heavy dependence on individual expertise.

Goal

The goal is to use simulations to gain insights into the process during tool design, reducing the need for experiments and thereby saving time and costs.

Relevant KPI’s

– Reduction in lead time for tool design
– Decrease in the number of iterations in the design process
– Reduction in material waste
– Decrease in manual post-processing time
– Improvement in the quality of the end product
– Increase in the prediction accuracy of simulations.

What do we actually do?

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We support customers from the industry with our DeepTech solutions in increasing the technical efficiency of processes and machinery while minimizing resource consumption. Our AI-based prediction and construction assistants enable a rapid assessment of various design drafts through rapid prototyping and identify potential optimizations. These are based on digital representations of the respective processes, which can be analyzed through fully automated simulations, allowing for the synthesis of extensive data pools that our AI assistance systems can work with.