Simulation and modeling tools offer significant opportunities to analyze and optimize manufacturing processes. Are you struggling to manufacture according to specifications? Are manufacturing defects appearing? Do you want to improve the energy efficiency of your process or reduce consumables costs?
AZTERLAN offers material manufacturers, foundries, forgings, stampings, and heat treatment companies a multi-focused approach to different process areas (material, process, and post-process optimization) aimed at objectives such as:
- Process adaptation to new customer requirements.
- Reduction in development time and integration of new products into your portfolio.
- Reduction in approval time for new samples.
- Optimization of material properties and the manufacturing process (more efficient use of resources and effective in the final results).
OPTIMIZATION CYCLE
Advanced tools to address critical aspects of your process
Metal product manufacturing processes comprise the main stages of material design, the manufacturing process itself, and postprocessing, the latter primarily related to heat treatment. For each of these phases, AZTERLAN has developed work methodologies that allow for targeted or comprehensive optimization (considering all stages) to achieve the identified improvement objectives.
Thus, SUMA (materials design), SYSMOD (process design), and TREAT (heat treatment design) are methodologies that incorporate the use of modelers based on physical equations and data analytics, with a flexible scope based on the milestones and objectives of each organization.
Material optimization based on new customer requirements, focusing on its chemical composition and manufacturing conditions.
Goals:
- Resolve quality issues associated with a specific alloy.
- Accelerate the integration of new alloys into the manufacturing process.
Advanced design of filling and solidification systems for casting components made of steel, copper-based alloys, and superalloys.
Goals:
- Reduction in component approval time.
- Resolution of quality issues associated with current components.
- Introduction of components that are complex due to their geometry or the materials involved in the process.
Advanced heat treatment simulation.
Goals:
- Optimization of current heat treatment cycles.
- Design of complex heat treatments for parts based on the geometry or alloy involved.
- Resolution of heat treatment problems associated with components and materials.
WE TRANSFER SOLUTIONS
We provide you with the tools and knowledge to meet your challenges
1) STUDY OF THE STARTING POINT
- Study of the current situation of the material, process, or post-process to be optimized.
- Proposal for a new design or adjustments necessary to optimize the material or component, solve a specific problem, or integrate a new range of components and materials efficiently and effectively.
2) VALIDATION OF MATERIAL, PROCESS, OR HEAT TREATMENT
- Validation of the developed models and their adjustment to optimize the simulation results.
- Process monitoring.
- Execution of destructive and non-destructive tests.
3) PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL
- Implementation of systems for real-time manufacturing monitoring.
- Data collection and processing using data analytics tools.
- Generation of predictive control models to anticipate results and implement corrective actions to prevent potential deviations from the desired characteristics of the material or component.
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