Intelligent computation techniques for process planning of cold forging

摘要

In this paper, two artificial intelligence (Al) techniques were applied to the problem of processplanning in multiple-blow cold forging. Given the reduction in area of the product to be forged and thedegree of formability of the material, in the first application a fuzzy logic (FL) technique was used todiscriminate whether or not a cold forged product was feasible in a single blow. In the secondapplication, a neural network (NN) architecture was used to identify the correct number of blowsnecessary to complete the cold forging process.