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Webinar - Formability of titanium Ti6AI-4V at moderate temperature combined with high-pressure

Learn how the unique new forming technology, the High Pressure Warm Forming process, HPWF, combines high pressure with a moderately elevated temperature providing a more rapid and cost-effective fabrication solution for aerospace-grade titanium parts.

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Webinar - The Quintus Flexform™ process for low volume production

Learn how to produce sheet metal parts with complex shapes in small volumes. In the webinar we will discuss how the high pressure Flexform technology can provide value to the vehicle sheet metal fabrication industry.

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Reference Case - Ford Motor Company

The Ford New Model Programs Development Center in Dearborn have successfully operated a 93,000 ton Quintus Flexform press for more than two decades. The Flexform process is used for low volume sheet metal fabrication and for prototype development, where complex shapes and high part quality is required. Quick time to market is a key feature in all Flexform activities, as well as the low tool cost to produce parts. Typically, Flexform parts within Ford range from body-in-white components to skin panels like roofs and doors. The process is also ideally suited for a large variety of blank material and thicknesses.

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An alternative new forming method to Hot forming has in this paper been evaluated, where an elevated pressure is used, combined with only a fraction ...
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Cessna marks four decades of successful high pressure parts forming. Cessna Aircraft Company will soon celebrate its 90th anniversary, and is busier than ever. In ...
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Quintus Technologies Flexcell Concept

Brochure – Quintus Presses – New Flexcell™ Concept

The Flexcell™ Concept takes the time for tool changes and new tool set-up from hours to seconds. The Flexcell™ concept substantially increases productivity, allowing fabrication of small production batches, when a wide variety of part shapes is required.

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White Paper - Forming Simulation Correlation with the Flexform Hydroform Technology

Forming Simulation Correlation with the Flexform Hydroform Technology  Flexform is a high pressure hydroforming technique using a flexible rubber diaphragm between the pressure medium and the formed sheet. The technique allows sheet metal to be formed in different thicknesses in one and the same tool, as the blank will take the shape of the single rigid tool half. Flexform pressing is used for low volume production and prototyping, where the low tool cost and short lead time is of essence.

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The Flexform Fluid Cell Press at Premium AEROTEC’s plant in Bremen, Germany, had been in operation for more than 30 years when the company decided ...
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Quintus Recent Hydroforming and Flexform Development White Paper

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White paper by Sture Olsson, Quintus Technologies.  In Flexform, sheet metal is formed over one rigid, shape-defining tool half by a flexible rubber diaphragm supported by hydraulic pressure. The technology has been the preferred sheet metal fabrication method within the aerospace airframe industry for decades. The automotive industry has more recently successfully adopted the technology within prototyping and low volume production.

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Flexforming

White Paper - Flexforming of an automotive side impact beam

Mikael Bergkvist, Product Manager Sheet Metal Forming Quintus Technologies Västerås, Sweden View the presentation that showcases that the Flexform technology may be used to form ultra high-strength steel and other difficult-to-form materials. Demonstrate the forming processes for an automotive relevant part (side impact beam).

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Quintus Technologies Automotive Prototyping Brochure

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