Virtual
Vehicle development
ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer takes an active part in the automotive industry in the development of vehicles and manufacturing equipment. In addition to the development of body components and complete bodies for large-series production, ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer also develops manufacturing technologies for carbody manufacture in the range of tool & die, body-in-white and assembly. Our customers benefit from our versatile ideas potential. In the course of planning, we always have in mind the complete vehicle process.
Services in the range of vehicle development
Concept development
- Development of vehicle-related contents, concept development up to the determination of the specifications as well as implementation of conceptional package investigations.
Prototype development
- Detailed development of concepts and elaboration into fully described data records
- By application of the virtual back-up at this stage of the product development the simulation results can already be incorporated into the CAD data of the first prototype.
- Close interlocking between design, simulation and the manufacturing process in the prototype phase forms the basis of our development expertise.
Series development
- Further development of the prototype data records including the actual trial results, followed by validation simulation
- Preparation and implementation of the series documentation of these data records
Services in the range of manufacturing equipment development
Manufacturing technology tool & die
- Concept and product planning:
Consultation and assessment concerning production as well as safeguarding of producibility of body components
- Process planning:
Determination of the type of production as well as development of the basic process/draw die development taking into account profitability and quality requirements
- Planning tool & die:
Project management in the phases of detailled planning, design, manufacture, commissioning through to final acceptance of stamping dies (process acceptance, acceptance of design, casting patterns and dies by the tooling manufacturers for various OEMs)
Manufacturing technology body-in-white
- Concept planning
Determination of joining sequence and assembly structure, tolerance planning on the basis of the material and the component concept as well as initial cost estimation
- Product planning:
Determination of holding and clamping concept as well as quality and measuring strategy, performance of initial tolerance simulations
- Process planning:
Determination of the manufacturing process, development of the system layout as well as system and material flow simulation based on product planning
Simulation
- Use of up-to-date software on the basis of FEM (Finite Elements Method) to safeguard the manufacturing process for body components by deep drawing simulation
- Generation of draw die development by means of fast morphing tools for early support of carbody development