founded 1995 headquarters wilen bei wollerau switzerland key people waldemar kubli founder and ceo products software number of employees 300 2016 website www.autoform.com autoform engineering gmbh located in wilen bei wollerau is a swiss software developer . the company develops and markets software products for the die making and sheet metal forming industry . this covers product manufacturability tool and material cost calculation die face design and virtual process optimization . in this field the company had in 2009 a market share of 50 to 60 percent 1 and in 2008 of the largest 20 automotive oems and most of their suppliers were using autoform . 2 1995 the company emerged as a spin off from the eidgen ssischen technische hochschule z rich . there the development of the simulation software started 1990 the dissertation of founder waldemar kubli . subsequently the company created subsidiaries in europe north and south america and asia . products edit the main product is autoform with various modules running either stand alone or integrated into catia and or nx . 3 the autoform products are divided into various solutions targeted at areas of application along the sheet metal engineering process chain . these solutions address product design planning and bidding tooling and production . 4 at the core of the autoform solutions is finite element analysis solver technology applied to sheet metal forming simulation . autoform utilizes an incremental solver for its solutions for tooling and production while using inverse one step solver for planning and bidding and product design . the application of the different solvers is to address the differences in available input information for the different phases of the process chain . during product design and planning limited information is available for design analysis ; part geometry material thickness and mechanical properties . therefore the use of an inverse one step is appropriate and timely method to evaluate the feasibility of the part design . during tooling development and production support tooling geometry is available and therefore incremental simulation should be applied as a manufacturability check . 5 in addition to the use of incremental solver technology the solution for production also applies stochastic methods to model the potential for variations in the inputs commonly associated with sheet metal forming simulation in doing so users can predict the potential for robustness of the sheet metal forming process during the design evaluation and validation . by modeling the effect of production noise cp and cpk process capability index in production can be predicted . another use of the stochastic model is to vary design variables . applying their proprietary method the application allows the user to perform systematic process improvement during tooling engineering or production troubleshooting to identify which design variable should be adjusted to affect a beneficial result of the metal forming process being modeled . 6 industry and research partnerships edit this section does not cite any sources . please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message autoform is involved in joint development projects for sheet metal forming with automobile manufacturers automotive suppliers and universities automobile manufacturers audi daimler psa tooling suppliers magna prabha thyssen nothelfer material suppliers arcelor corus thyssenkrupp steel universities eth zurich basel university twente university hardware suppliers hp ibm sun intel autoform also has cooperative agreements with the cad suppliers dassault syst mes siemens plm software and links its technology to the cad environments catia v5 and nx unigraphics . in addition the company is involved in cooperation projects with the cad cam suppliers missler software and tebis for integrating autoform software technology in their cad cam tool and die software . references edit svc swiss venture club 11 . m rz 2009 handelszeitung 21 . oktober 2008 autoform system requirements autoform solutions overview d. banabic et al sheet metal forming processes constitutive modelling and numerical simulation 2010 pages 218 230 . d. ling d. williams b. carleer m. stippak systematic process improvement of stamping processes key engineering materials vol . 549 pp. 13 20 apr. 2013 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title autoform & oldid 734308685 categories software companies of switzerlandcompanies established in 1995hidden categories articles needing additional references from april 2013all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 13 august 2016 at 12 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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