Optimized Development for Magnesium Castings and Casting Processes - Increase in Value by Applying a Closed Process Chain for the Development of Automotive Magnesium Castings

摘要

"Time to Market" is the slogan by which the competitiveness of developments is judged. The process chain in the development of a magnesium casting consisting of functional design, digital mock up, detailed design, lifetime prediction, casting of prototypes, layout of the series casting process and tools, and the optimization of the series casting process, can be supported by CAE technologies such as CAD, FE analysis and casting simulation. An application of these technologies as distributed solutions does support simultaneous engineering. But, an enormous technical and economic advantage can be gained from the integration of these technologies, meaning the simultaneous exchange and usage of common models.