KEYWORDS: Forge, material forming, heat treatment, induction heating, industrial applications, computational efficiency, present and future developments

Mougins, France, 11 June 2015
On 1-2 June 2015 at the Novotel Montfleury hotel in Cannes, France, Transvalor laid on the 20th edition of the FORGE® International User Meeting, an annual conference that brings together international users of the company’s flagship software solution.

Transvalor presented the product’s latest features on this occasion, allowing users from around the world to exchange respective experiences, thereby establishing a network of highly qualified professionals involved in digital simulation.

In line with participants‘ preferences, the topics were grouped by theme, and broached via sessions consisting of short presentations and discussions with the entire audience. Transvalor’s presentations focused on the latest upgrades in FORGE® NxT in terms of process simulation, heat treatment, induction heating, computational efficiency and human-machine interface. For their part, a number of users presented high value-added applications for their companies in diverse industrial fields such as automotive, steel or mechanical equipment.

The future was also discussed. Transvalor teams and researchers from the Cemef (Center for Material Forming) unveiled several functionalities on which they are presently collaborating. The results of these projects will be available in the very near future, and will notably concern stationary processes (rolling), with computation times that have been considerably reduced.

The upshot of the exchanges was a consensus that digital simulation is key to improving companies‘ competitiveness and that, thanks to its capacity to model an ever-greater number of industrial processes in the fields of plastic forming and heat treatment, FORGE® NxT is now a leading software solution on its market, one that helps to considerably reduce design time frames and optimize manufacturing processes, both in terms of quality and cost.

The conference yet again offered proof that professional efficiency and user-friendliness can go together. A dinner was organized at the Plage Keller restaurant in Cap d“Antibes on the evening of 1 June. This was a chance to further discuss technical subjects while taking in the magnificent view of the Baie des Anges. All participants – users, Cemef researchers and Transvalor staff members – said their farewells at the end of the second day and planned to meet the following year.

If you would like to receive information on the FORGE® solution and the presentations given during this conference, or if you would like to take part in the next edition of the FORGE® International User Meeting, scheduled for June 2016, please contact Transvalor at the following address: octavia.reimbold@transvalor.com, we will be delighted to meet you

TRANSVALOR, a scientific software editor and service provider headquartered in France, provides manufacturing and engineering intelligence to a wide range of industries such as automotive, aerospace, energy, medical, oil and gas and many others. It has developed an extensive suite of cutting edge simulation software for materials science that addresses a wide and varied range of forming processes for metallic solid and liquid materials as well as for polymers: FORGE® for hot, warm and cold metal forming, COLDFORM® for cold metal forming, THERCAST® for casting applications and REM3D® for plastic injection molding.

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Octavia Reimbold
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