Press Tooling
One part of the core business of ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer is the manufacture of tools & dies. Around 820 employees are responsible for the manufacture of tooling sets for series production of medium and large body components and hydro-forming components. As a specialist for outer panels, the supreme discipline in automotive manufacture, ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer is able to produce high-quality sheet-metal forming tools for body components of steel and aluminium materials and other high- and ultra-high-strength materials weighing up to 60 tonnes.
In addition to conventional forming technology, ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer is also a leader in the field of hydro-forming, the high-pressure forming of sheet-metal, tubes and profiles using fluid media.
The scope of services in the area of forming technology ranges from component development to simultaneous engineering and series production up to matching / adjustment of individual components and complete o.k. car body. Our Heilbronn location also operates a press shop for the series production of hydro-forming components.
Matching
ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer has amassed a great deal of know-how in recent years in the field of matching, so that the company is now able to "match” complete car bodies.
The objective of matching is to achieve high dimensional accuracy of the body with optimum surface quality. To reach this goal, prototype manufacture, tool & die and body-in-white must work closely together in order to detect time and cost-intensive changes in the car body at an early stage and to be able to avoid costly optimisation loops.
Due to the fact that matching responsibility as well as means of production are from one source ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer is able to meet the current demands of the automotive industry for short throughput times and high start-up quality and to apply process-wide solutions at the earliest possible stage.